Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
BARRY GOLDWATERExtremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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.
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