To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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