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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

The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Fellows Presidential Principles
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Defense Liberty Vices
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Drinking Government Political
In your heart you know he’s right.
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Funny Heart Humor
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
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
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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Government Jail Late
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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Commitment Meaningful Party
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Government Liberty People
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Giving Rifles Sex
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

Causes Liberty Neglect
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
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
BARRY GOLDWATER

Cutting Fighting Government
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
When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Men Unexperience Useful War
We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Inspirational Return Way

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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