You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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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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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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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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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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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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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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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