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.
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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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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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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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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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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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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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