Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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A 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.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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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’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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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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