And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
BARRY GOLDWATEREquality, 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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 understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Conservatism 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.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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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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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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