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.
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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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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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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