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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

Barry Goldwater

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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Differences Equality Father
There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Defense Liberty
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Justice Order Religious
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Hard Work Most Risk Underdog
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Campaigns Heart Politics
You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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Country Fighting Needs
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Demagogues Despotism Political
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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Business Men Stupid
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
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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Jobs People Running
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.
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Chief Instrument Liberty Men
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Country Growing Political Up
I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Baseball Basketball Football
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
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Benefits Earning People
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 am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Believe Thinking Tired

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

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And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

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