The big thing is to make this country. . . quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. … - Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater

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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

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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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We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

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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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