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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
Demagogues
Despotism
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In your heart you know he's right.
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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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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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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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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. L.B.J. should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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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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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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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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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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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