I will offer a choice, not an echo.
BARRY GOLDWATERAnd 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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 made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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