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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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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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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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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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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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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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'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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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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