I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
BARRY GOLDWATERMy aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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