History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
BARRY GOLDWATERI say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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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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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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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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