I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
BARRY GOLDWATERI thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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 understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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