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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
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Barry Morris Goldwater
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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.
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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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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 won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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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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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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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'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 certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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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