The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
BARRY GOLDWATERGovernment should stay the hell out of people’s business.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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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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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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