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.
BARRY GOLDWATERPerserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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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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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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