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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIn your heart you know he’s right.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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