Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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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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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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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’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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I 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.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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.
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