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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

Barry Goldwater

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

Civilization Country Government
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
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.
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Long Men Opportunity
There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Country Defense Liberty
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Abortion Decision Religious
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
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
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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Country Issues Place Religious
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Defense Liberty Vices
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Business Men Thinking
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Discipline Letters Thinking
I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Political Politics Today
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Anger Communication Manner
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.
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Differences Equality Father
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Government Liberty People

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