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.
BARRY GOLDWATERTrade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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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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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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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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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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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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