I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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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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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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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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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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