More from Barry Goldwater
You don’t need to be ‘straight’ to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
Statement of 10 June 1993, as quoted in “Goldwater Backs Gay Troops” in The New York Times (11 June 1993)I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Said in July 1981, on Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell’s opposition to Sandra Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court nomination- The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), p. 15
More about liberty
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its “Reply to the Governor” (November 11, 1755) Reply to the Governor