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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?

Barry Goldwater

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 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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Jail Late
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
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Judging Men Sleep
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Cutting Fighting Government
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Philosophy Spiritual
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Justice Order Religious
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
BARRY GOLDWATER

Benefits Earning People
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
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Differences Equality Father
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Fighting Men Order
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
You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Bomb Civilian Peace War
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Growing Political Up
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Long Men Opportunity

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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?

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