Barry Goldwater Quotes
He talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages
Barry Goldwater, 1909-1998, U. S. Senator (Republican, AZ), Republican Nominee for President, Description of Hubert Humphrey
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Dewey had a patrician bearing of formality and a moustache and the little plastic and candy statues of a bride and groom that was placed on most wedding cakes and the groom tended to have a moustache and was dressed in a black tuxedo.
At the Versailles peace conferences British Prime Minister Lloyd George was often at odds with President Woodrow Wilson and Clemenceau of France: 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Scott was not known for his intellect.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. At the time, one curiosity was the “Flea Circus”. This was a glass container containing fleas that would have been taught to do various tricks. The “trainers” would charge people a small amount of money to view the different tricks. So this was an insult to the intelligence of Congressmen that most people at the time would easily understand.
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, statesman, businessman, United States Air Force officer, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, many political pundits and historians believe he laid the foundation for the conservative revolution to follow, as the grassroots organization and conservative takeover of the Republican party began a long-term realignment in American politics helped to bring about the "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement.