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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.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
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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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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: One can disagree without being disagreeable.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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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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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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It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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