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 GOLDWATERIn your heart you know he’s right.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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 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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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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