If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
BARRY GOLDWATERConservatism 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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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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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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