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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.

Barry Goldwater

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Day Freedom Gay Memorial
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Aim Law Welfare
I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Baseball Basketball Football
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Anger Communication Manner
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Judging Men Sleep
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Fighting Men Order
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Country Growing Political Up
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

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

Fellows Presidential Principles
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Gay Julius Military
Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Family Perseverance Stories
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Criminal Government Political
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Business Men Stupid
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Government Little Mean
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Hard Work Most Risk Underdog
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
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Hurt Inspirational Life
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Differences Equality Father
If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Mind Shaving Cream Two
You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Bomb Civilian Peace War
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Atheism Christian Thinking
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Forgotten Importance Selling
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 think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Air Government Thinking
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Demagogues Despotism Political
I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Home Men Sex
We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Inspirational Return Way

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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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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