There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERAfter 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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