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Barry Goldwater [1909-1998] American
Rank: 101
Politician, Former United States Senator


Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and businessman who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election. 

Politics, Business, Death, Equality, Family, Good, Government, History, Trust, War



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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream. Good
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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. Family
103
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. War
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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. Equality
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. Business
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. History
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. Government
109
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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? Death
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Politics
112
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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
115
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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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. Politics
118
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
119
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone. Trust
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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