Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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 understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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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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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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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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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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