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" It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me. "
Barry Goldwater
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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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" 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 think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. "
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" The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. "
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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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" American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. "
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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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" 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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" 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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