Barry Goldwater - Country Quotes

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You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

Barry Goldwater

Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B. C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.

Barry Goldwater

The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, 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. And that's what brings me into it.

Barry Goldwater

It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that's a much easier way to get votes than my way. It always has been. It's political Daddyism, and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

Barry Goldwater

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Barry Goldwater