I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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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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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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