In your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATERIf 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
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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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 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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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