It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATERTrade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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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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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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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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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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In your heart you know he’s right.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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