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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.

Barry Goldwater

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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Self Confidence Track
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discipline Letters Thinking
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Criminal Government Political
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Atheism Christian Thinking
We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
BARRY GOLDWATER

Earth Flags Respect
It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Jobs People Running
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Issues Place Religious
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Mud Peace Puddles War
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Government Love
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Freedom Money Real
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATER

House Style White
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Flying Men Pilot
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Aim Law Streamlining
I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Air Effort Secret
If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Mind Shaving Cream Two
I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
BARRY GOLDWATER

Said Suits Winning
I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Political Politics Today
In your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Funny Heart Humor
The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Jail Late
I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Home Men Sex
Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Facts Fallen Fascinate Mistress
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Abortion Decision Religious
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Business Men Thinking
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discovery Essentials Mind
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?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Believe Thinking Tired
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Believe Space Strong
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Art Freedom Order

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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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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