Barry Goldwater
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"Barry Morris Goldwater" was a businessman and five-term United States Senate/United States Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the History of the United States Republican Party/Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States/president in the United States presidential election, 1964/1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure during the first half of the 1960s, he was known as "Mr. Conservative".

Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the Conservatism in the United States/American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarianism/libertarian movement.

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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

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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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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige.

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To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

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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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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

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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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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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