The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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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 think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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