Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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