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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

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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Dead

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Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.
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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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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 will offer a choice, not an echo.
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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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