I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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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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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy 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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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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