If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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 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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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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