A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
BARRY GOLDWATERI have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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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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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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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.
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