History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
BARRY GOLDWATERMy aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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 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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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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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 think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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