I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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 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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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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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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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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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