It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATERThroughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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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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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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