"I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle."
-Barry Goldwater
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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.“
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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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"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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