To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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.
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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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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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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 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 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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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