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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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