I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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 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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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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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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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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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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 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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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