I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
BARRY GOLDWATERThroughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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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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.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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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 have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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