Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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And 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.
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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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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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