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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

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
Aircraft Pilot
Businessperson
Former United States Senator
Military Officer
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Phoenix
Arizona
Barry Morris Goldwater
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The 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.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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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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At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.
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I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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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 now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. L.B.J. should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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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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It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
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I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.
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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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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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