American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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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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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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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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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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