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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Barry Goldwater

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Art Freedom Order
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Demagogues Despotism Political
When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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Dead Desire Dream Politician Wish
In your heart you know he’s right.
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Funny Heart Humor
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
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
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Mud Peace Puddles War
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Discovery Essentials Mind
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
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.
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Causes Liberty Neglect
I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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Air Effort Secret
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
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Government Liberty People
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
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Country Growing Political Up
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Justice Order Religious

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