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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.

Barry Goldwater

Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Family Perseverance Stories
I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Giving Men President
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
BARRY GOLDWATER

Benefits Earning People
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Defense Liberty Vices
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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Believe Space Strong
It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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Jobs People Running
There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Country Defense Liberty
Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Philosophy Spiritual
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Environment People Stronger
I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Peace Thinking War
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Commitment Meaningful Party
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Civilization Country Government
The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Gay People
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Demagogues Despotism Political
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Party People Wife
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Little Mean

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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