It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
BARRY GOLDWATERReligious 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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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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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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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