By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
BARRY GOLDWATERWhen 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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