It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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.
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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.
In your heart you know he’s right.
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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.
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.
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.
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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.
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.