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Barry Goldwater

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Foxes Great Long Success
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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History Marriage Wife
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Choices Echoes Inspiring
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Discovery Essentials Mind
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
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 constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
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
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
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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Business Men Thinking
To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Conservative Patriotic War
If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Mind Shaving Cream Two
You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Bomb Civilian Peace War
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
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
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

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