The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
BARRY GOLDWATERI think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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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
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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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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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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.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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