There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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