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Barry Goldwater

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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Home Long Men
None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Government Love
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 GOLDWATER

Judging Men Sleep
In your heart you know he’s right.
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Funny Heart Humor
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Campaigns Heart Politics
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Differences Equality Father
Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Philosophy Spiritual
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Business Men Stupid
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Republican Self Talent
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
BARRY GOLDWATER

Benefits Earning People
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATER

House Style White
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Choices Echoes Inspiring
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discovery Essentials Mind
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Political Politics Today
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Foxes Great Long Success
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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Art Freedom Order
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Atheism Christian Thinking
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Criminal Government Political
You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Bomb Civilian Peace War
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Flying Men Pilot
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Anger Communication Manner
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Growing Political Up
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Diplomats Doe Succeed
I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Believe Space Strong
When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Unexperience Useful War
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Demagogues Despotism Political

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