The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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 do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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