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.
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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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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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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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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