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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIf you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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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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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 think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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