The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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 have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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 have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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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 fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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 every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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