It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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