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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

We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Giving Rifles Sex
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Foxes Great Long Success
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
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Hard Work Most Risk Underdog
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
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
BARRY GOLDWATER

Disagree Observation
The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Fellows Presidential Principles
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Home Long Men
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Freedom Religious Views
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discipline Letters Thinking
Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Federation Nation Party Republican
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
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Mud Peace Puddles War
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Negative Nuclear War
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
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Chief Instrument Liberty Men
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Forgotten Importance Selling
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Drinking Government Political
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Defense Liberty Vices
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Issues Place Religious
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 will offer a choice, not an echo.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Choices Echoes Inspiring
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
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
BARRY GOLDWATER

History Marriage Wife
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Atheism Christian Thinking
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Long Men Opportunity
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

Aim Law Welfare

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