Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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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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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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