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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

I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Baseball Basketball Football
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Owner Rights Union
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
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
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
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
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 now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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House Light White
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Causes Liberty Neglect
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
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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Campaigns Heart Politics
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
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Giving Rifles Sex
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Disagree Observation
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Forgotten Importance Selling
Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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Enjoy Like You Sex
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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Business Men Thinking
Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Federation Nation Party Republican
In your heart you know he’s right.
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Funny Heart Humor
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Justice Order Religious
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
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
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
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Little Mean
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Diplomats Doe Succeed
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Civilization Country Government

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