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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.

Barry Goldwater

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
We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Electrical Mean Power Rivers
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Gay Julius Military
I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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Air Government Thinking
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
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Government Little Mean
In your heart you know he’s right.
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Funny Heart Humor
I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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Air Effort Secret
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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House Style White
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Demagogues Despotism Political
Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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Enjoy Like You Sex
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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Country Issues Place Religious
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.
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Judging Men Sleep
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Chief Instrument Liberty Men
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Disagree Observation
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
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Negative Nuclear War
I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
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Said Suits Winning
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Environment People Stronger
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.
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Foxes Great Long Success
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Giving Rifles Sex
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Enough Giving Gun Hard
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Choices Echoes Inspiring
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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Funny Gay Military
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Government Liberty People
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Art Freedom Order

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