Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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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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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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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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’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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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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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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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