Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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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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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don’t depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don’t leave it all up to big government.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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