Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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 think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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