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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

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
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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Conservative Man Slavery
To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Conservative Patriotic War
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER

Commitment Meaningful Party
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 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
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.
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Foxes Great Long Success
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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Fighting Men Order
The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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Country Gay People
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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Business Men Thinking
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Disagree Observation
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?
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Cutting Fighting Government
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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Flying Men Pilot
It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Country Growing Political Up
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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Civilization Country Government

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