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• Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Military, Goal

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• I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Law, Welfare, Aim

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.19, Bottom of the Hill

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• ...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

  Barry Goldwater

  Selfish, Police, Psychology

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• History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.

  Barry Goldwater

  Sleep, Men, Judging

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• We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.

  Barry Goldwater

  Inspirational, Way, Return

  Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

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• ‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

  Barry Goldwater

  Believe, Government, Differences

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• On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• 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

  Self Confidence, Men, Track

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

  Barry Goldwater

  Observation, Disagree, Disagreeable

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• I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Moscow, Centralized Government

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1964). “Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook”

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• The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Slavery, Conservative

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.11, Bottom of the Hill

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• My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mother, Wall, Clouds

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• Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

  Barry Goldwater

  Heart, Campaigns, Politics

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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.'

  Barry Goldwater

  Winning, Suits, Said

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe.'

  Barry Goldwater

  Running, Religious, Gay

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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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Liberty, Causes, Neglect

  "The Conscience of a Conservative". Book by Barry Goldwater and L. Brent Bozell, 1960.

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• I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.

  Barry Goldwater

  Feelings, Liberty, Body

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1964). “Where I stand”

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• The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, War, Tyrants

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• If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

  Barry Goldwater

  Two, Shaving Cream, Mind

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• One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.

  Barry Goldwater

  Exercise, Political, Choices

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• I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Thinking, Government, Air

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• It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

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  Religious, Order, Justice

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• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  Barry Goldwater

  Business, Stupid, Men

  Attributed to Barry Goldwater in: Conference Board, Across the board. Vol. 15. p. 74, 1978.

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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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Long, Foxes, Great Success

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• We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.

  Barry Goldwater

  Sex, Giving, Rifles

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