I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
BARRY GOLDWATERWe now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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