Barry Goldwater Quotes - Page 3

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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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• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Criminals

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• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  Barry Goldwater

  Fighting, Cutting, Government

  Barry Goldwater (1994). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.52, Regnery Publishing

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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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• ‎"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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• It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.

  Barry Goldwater

  Running, Jobs, People

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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.

  Barry Goldwater

  Meaningful, Party, Commitment

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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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• 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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• At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.

  Barry Goldwater

  Beautiful, Photography, Wall

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

  Barry Goldwater

  Heart, Campaigns, Politics

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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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• Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Tyrants, Law, Persuasion

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.27, Bottom of the Hill

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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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• And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Rome, Civilization

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1976). “The coming breakpoint”, Not Avail

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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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• 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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• A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

  Barry Goldwater

  Fighting, Men, Order

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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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• Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

  Barry Goldwater

  Segregation, Integration

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

  Barry Goldwater

  Sex, Giving, Rifles

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

  Barry Goldwater

  Stories, Perserverance, My Family

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