I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
BARRY GOLDWATERA 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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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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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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