You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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