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.
Barry GoldwaterSome programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
Barry GoldwaterThe Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
Barry GoldwaterPolitics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry GoldwaterIt is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
Barry GoldwaterAnd if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
Barry GoldwaterWe 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.
Barry Goldwater