History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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