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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

Barry Goldwater

Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Family Perseverance Stories
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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Benefits Earning People
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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Baseball Basketball Football
We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Electrical Mean Power Rivers
When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Dead Desire Dream Politician Wish
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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House Style White
I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Centralized Government Country Government
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Differences Equality Father
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Drinking Government Political
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Federation Nation Party Republican
A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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Abortion Decision Religious
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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Religious War Years
The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Fellows Presidential Principles
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Giving Rifles Sex
You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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Country Fighting Needs

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

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