When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe 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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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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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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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.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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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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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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