And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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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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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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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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