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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.

Barry Goldwater

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
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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Freedom Religious Views
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.
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Environment People Stronger
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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Fighting Men Order
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Government Little Mean
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Art Freedom Order
History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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Judging Men Sleep
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
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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Christian Color Race
I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Political Politics Today
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Conservative Man Slavery
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Giving Rifles Sex
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 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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Discipline Letters Thinking
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Enough Giving Gun Hard
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Hard Work Most Risk Underdog
If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Mind Shaving Cream Two
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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Negative Nuclear War
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Diplomats Doe Succeed
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Criminal Government Political
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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Foxes Great Long Success
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
The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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Government Jail Late
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Government Liberty People
Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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Facts Fallen Fascinate Mistress
The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Fellows Presidential Principles
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

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.

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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.

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