I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
BARRY GOLDWATERExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and 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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