The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
BARRY GOLDWATERPerserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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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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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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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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