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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
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It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.
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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.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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In your heart you know he's right.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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'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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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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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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