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.
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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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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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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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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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 will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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