I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.
BARRY GOLDWATERAny pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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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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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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