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

Barry Goldwater

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Government Love
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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Commitment Meaningful Party
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Disagree Observation
It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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Jobs People Running
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Art Freedom Order
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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Republican Self Talent
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
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
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
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Country Growing Political Up
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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Christian Color Race
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
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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Flying Men Pilot
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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Benefits Earning People
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.
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Men Self Confidence Track
The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Fellows Presidential Principles
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
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
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Discovery Essentials Mind
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Chief Instrument Liberty Men
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
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
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Government Liberty People
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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Aim Law Welfare
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
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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