To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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