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.
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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Well, 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.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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