Barry Goldwater Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Giving, President

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• Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

  Barry Goldwater

  Stories, Perserverance, My Family

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• Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.

  Barry Goldwater

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Men

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

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• Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

  Barry Goldwater

  Segregation, Integration

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• When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Race, Color

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• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  Barry Goldwater

  Peace, War, Mud Puddles

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• I will offer a choice, not an echo.

  Barry Goldwater

  Inspiring, Echoes, Choices

  News conference, Paradise City, Ariz., 3 Jan. 1964

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• I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

  Barry Goldwater

  Peace, War, Thinking

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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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Marriage, History, Wife

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• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Drinking, Government, Political

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• It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, Growing Up, Political

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• I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.

  Barry Goldwater

  Strong, Believe, Space

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• To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Discovery, Mind, Essentials

  "With No Apologies". Book by Barry Goldwater, 1979.

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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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Air, Effort, Secret

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• I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mean, Government, Littles

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.18, Bottom of the Hill

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• I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.

  Barry Goldwater

  Loss, Thinking, Concrete Jungle

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• Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mistress, Would Be, Facts

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• You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

  Barry Goldwater

  Country, Fighting, Needs

  1993 On homosexuals in the military. In Life, Dec.

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• The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.

  Barry Goldwater

  Order, Nwo, World Government

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• It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.

  Barry Goldwater

  Intelligent, Air, Ohio

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• The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

  Barry Goldwater

  Doe, Diplomats, Succeed

  "Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook".

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• My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Law, Aim, Streamlining

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

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• I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  Barry Goldwater

  Betrayal, War, Hypocrisy

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• We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

  Barry Goldwater

  Respect, Flags, Earth

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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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Light, White, House

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