I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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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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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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