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Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
Aircraft Pilot
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Former United States Senator
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Arizona
Barry Morris Goldwater
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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
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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 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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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: One can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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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The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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 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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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 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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