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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

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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Phoenix
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Barry Morris Goldwater
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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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