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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

Barry Goldwater

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
Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Facts Fallen Fascinate Mistress
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
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
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Negative Nuclear War
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Justice Order Religious
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discovery Essentials Mind
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Liberty People
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

Government Jail Late
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Growing Political Up
Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Force Integration Segregation Wrong
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.’
BARRY GOLDWATER

Said Suits Winning
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Flying Men Pilot
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Hard Work Most Risk Underdog
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATER

House Style White
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

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