We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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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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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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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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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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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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