History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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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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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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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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Nixon 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.
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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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