We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATERI 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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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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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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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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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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 fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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 think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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