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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.

Barry Goldwater

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Constitution Function Government
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
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
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
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
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Mud Peace Puddles War
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
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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Country Gay People
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Criminal Government Political
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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Freedom Religious Views
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 are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Electrical Mean Power Rivers
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Discovery Essentials Mind
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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Anger Communication Manner
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
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Art Freedom Order

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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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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