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Barry Goldwater

We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. “L.B.J.” should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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House Light White
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Enough Giving Gun Hard
I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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Believe Space Strong
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
Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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Enjoy Like You Sex
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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Justice Order Religious
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Discovery Essentials Mind
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
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 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
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.
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Men Unexperience Useful War
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.’
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Said Suits Winning
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
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Government Little Mean
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.
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Men Self Confidence Track
A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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Abortion Decision Religious

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