The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATERI won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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