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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

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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Earth Flags Respect
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Demagogues Despotism Political
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
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Anger Communication Manner
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
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Disagree Observation
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Aim Law Streamlining
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 only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Diplomats Doe Succeed
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
The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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Country Gay People
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
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
Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Family Perseverance Stories
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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Freedom Money Real
We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Electrical Mean Power Rivers
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 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
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
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
I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Centralized Government Country Government
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
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.
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Believe Space Strong
Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Force Integration Segregation Wrong
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Owner Rights Union
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
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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Business Men Stupid

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.

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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.

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