The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATERThe big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses 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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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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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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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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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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