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?
BARRY GOLDWATERSome programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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 fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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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 am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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