I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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.
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