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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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In your heart you know he's right.
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I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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.
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It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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.
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Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out but we always suit up.'
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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