To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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