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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
Aircraft Pilot
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Former United States Senator
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Barry Morris Goldwater
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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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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out but we always suit up.'
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Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.
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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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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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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: One can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.
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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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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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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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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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