Barry Goldwater Quotes

• When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.

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

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

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• To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.

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• You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

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• You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.

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• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

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• Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

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• 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.

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Barry Goldwater (29)

Birth:	2nd January, 1909
Death:	29th May, 1998
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Goldwater was born in Phoenix, in what was then the Arizona Territory. Goldwater graduated from Staunton Military Academy, an elite private school in Virginia, and attended the University of Arizona for one year, where he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity. With the American entry into World War II, Goldwater received a reserve commission in the United States Army Air Forces.

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