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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.

Barry Goldwater

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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Civilization Country Government
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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Men Self Confidence Track
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Enough Giving Gun Hard
History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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Judging Men Sleep
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Gay Julius Military
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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Religious War Years
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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Drinking Government Political
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Government Liberty People
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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Baseball Basketball Football
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Constitution Function Government
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Forgotten Importance Selling
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Mud Peace Puddles War
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Demagogues Despotism Political
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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Owner Rights Union
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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Aim Law Welfare
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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Freedom Religious Views

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