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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Barry Goldwater

Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Gay Julius Military
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Mud Peace Puddles War
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Drinking Government Political
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.
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Commitment Meaningful Party
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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Business Men Thinking
I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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Giving Men President
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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Believe Thinking Tired
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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Disagree Observation
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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Christian Color Race
If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Mind Shaving Cream Two
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Party People Wife
In your heart you know he’s right.
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Funny Heart Humor
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Demagogues Despotism Political
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
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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Government Jail Late
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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Choices Echoes Inspiring

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