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.
BARRY GOLDWATERHubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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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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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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