Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATERHistory has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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 constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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