Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
BARRY GOLDWATERIf 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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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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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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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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?
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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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.
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