I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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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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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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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?
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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 understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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