Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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The 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.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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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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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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