American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
BARRY GOLDWATERWomen are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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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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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 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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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