Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATERNixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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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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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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 disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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