I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
BARRY GOLDWATERMy aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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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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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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