To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERWhen I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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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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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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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.
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