Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
BARRY GOLDWATERA man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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 think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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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.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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