We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
BARRY GOLDWATERIf everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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