Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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 think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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.
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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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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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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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