Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’m the most underdog underdog there is.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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