I 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.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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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 Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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