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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.

Barry Goldwater

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

Men Philosophy Spiritual
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
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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Giving Rifles Sex
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Justice Order Religious
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Day Freedom Gay Memorial
You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Bomb Civilian Peace War
We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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Earth Flags Respect
To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Conservative Patriotic War
Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Federation Nation Party Republican
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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Hurt Inspirational Life
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’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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Home Long Men
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Criminal Government Political
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Freedom Money Real
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
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
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
None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Government Love
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
BARRY GOLDWATER

History Marriage Wife
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Diplomats Doe Succeed
The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
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Discipline Letters Thinking
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
Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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Family Perseverance Stories
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Enough Giving Gun Hard
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Atheism Christian Thinking
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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Aim Law Welfare
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Foxes Great Long Success

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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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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