You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATERSmall men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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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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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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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 every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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