I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATERI think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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