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.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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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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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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