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.
BARRY GOLDWATERSex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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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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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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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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