Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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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.
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