The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
BARRY GOLDWATERAny pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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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 am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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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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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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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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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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