I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATERWhen fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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