It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATERI will offer a choice, not an echo.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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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.
BARRY GOLDWATER