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.
BARRY GOLDWATERMy aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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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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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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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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