To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERWomen are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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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 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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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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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