I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic 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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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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