I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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 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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By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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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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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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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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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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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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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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