"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."
-Barry Goldwater
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"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.“
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"I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle."
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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."
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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?"
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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."
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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."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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