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It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

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
Despotism
Political
Demagogues

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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: One can disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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In your heart you know he's right.
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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