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Barry Goldwater

We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Giving Rifles Sex
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
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discipline Letters Thinking
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
BARRY GOLDWATER

Enough Giving Gun Hard
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Campaigns Heart Politics
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Defense Liberty Vices
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Negative Nuclear War
You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Bomb Civilian Peace War
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

Country Issues Place Religious
I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Centralized Government Country Government
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Forgotten Importance Selling
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Demagogues Despotism Political
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
BARRY GOLDWATER

Disagree Observation
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Self Confidence Track
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
You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Fighting Needs

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