It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATERI think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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