You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERA man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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