Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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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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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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