It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATERI am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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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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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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.
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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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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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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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