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.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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 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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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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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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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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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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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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