I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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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’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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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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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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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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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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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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