Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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 understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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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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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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