I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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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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.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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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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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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