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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.

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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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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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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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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The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants in the history of the world.
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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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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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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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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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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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