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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.

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
Photographer
Politician
Phoenix
Arizona
Barry Morris Goldwater
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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 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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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 say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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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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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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