There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATERSmall men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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 understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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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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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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