It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
BARRY GOLDWATERIt is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
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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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Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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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.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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