I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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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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