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Politics Quotes by Barry Goldwater
- Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
- Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.
- The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I…
- 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…
- I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
- Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have…
- You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
- 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…
- If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
- If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
- A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
- I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit…
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- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle