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 GOLDWATERI 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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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.
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You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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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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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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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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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?
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