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 GOLDWATERWhether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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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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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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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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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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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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Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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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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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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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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The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.
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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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