In your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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