We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
BARRY GOLDWATERWhen I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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