Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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