Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATEREveryone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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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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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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 will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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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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