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.
BARRY GOLDWATERUnlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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We 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.
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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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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’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic 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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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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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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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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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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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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 constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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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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