You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERI think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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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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