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.
BARRY GOLDWATERTrade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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