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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

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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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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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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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
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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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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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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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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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You don't have to be straight to be in the military you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.
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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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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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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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