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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.

Barry Goldwater

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
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
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Aim Law Streamlining
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
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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Men Philosophy Spiritual
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Gay Julius Military
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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Campaigns Heart Politics
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.
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Hurt Inspirational Life
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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Republican Self Talent
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 will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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
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.
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Home Long Men
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.
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Civilization Country Government
I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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Believe Thinking Tired
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?
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Country Issues Place Religious

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