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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
Aircraft Pilot
Businessperson
Former United States Senator
Military Officer
Photographer
Politician
Phoenix
Arizona
Barry Morris Goldwater
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Defense
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Greater
Freedom
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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.
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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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We Americans understand freedom we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
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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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At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.
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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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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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