To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. BARRY GOLDWATER DiscoveryEssentials
I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk. BARRY GOLDWATER Baseball
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. BARRY GOLDWATER GayJuliusMilitary
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon. BARRY GOLDWATER
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. BARRY GOLDWATER Order
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. BARRY GOLDWATER President
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. BARRY GOLDWATER OrderReligious
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. BARRY GOLDWATER Long
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. BARRY GOLDWATER MudPuddles
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