Barry Goldwater quotes - page 5

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners. (Barry Goldwater)
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. View quote
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In your heart you know he's right. View quote
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. View quote
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,' it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit. View quote
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party. View quote
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I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk. View quote
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat. View quote
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength. View quote
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My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn't first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century. View quote
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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. (Barry Goldwater)
I can say with conviction that the religious issues of these groups have little or nothing to do with conservative or liberal politics. The uncompromising position of these groups is a divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system, if they gain sufficient strength. View quote
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The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. View quote
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They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives. View quote
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I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism." View quote
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Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. View quote
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Where fraternities are not allowed, communism flourishes. View quote
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. 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. View quote
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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. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. View quote
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The 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. The great decisions of Government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. This was true in the days of Madison, and it is just as true today. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic. View quote
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On peanut butter as shaving cream "...if you don't mind smelling like a peanut for two or three days it's a darn good shaving cream..." (Barry Goldwater)