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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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If 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
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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I 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?
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