In your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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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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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.
BARRY GOLDWATER