American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe 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.
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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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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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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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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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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