When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
BARRY GOLDWATERWell, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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