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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.

Barry Goldwater

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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Home Long Men
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
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
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Choices Echoes Inspiring
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
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
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Anger Communication Manner
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 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
You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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Bomb Civilian Peace War
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Criminal Government Political
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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Business Men Thinking
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Hard Work Most Risk Underdog
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
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
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
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
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Demagogues Despotism Political
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
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
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Enough Giving Gun Hard
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
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Diplomats Doe Succeed
History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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Judging Men Sleep
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
Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Force Integration Segregation Wrong
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Negative Nuclear War

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