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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Barry Goldwater

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Constitution Function Government
I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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Said Suits Winning
You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Fighting Needs
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
In your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Funny Heart Humor
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Party People Wife
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
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Owner Rights Union
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
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Self Confidence Track
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
The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Fellows Presidential Principles
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?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Cutting Fighting Government
I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Believe Space Strong
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
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Republican Self Talent

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