Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATERI’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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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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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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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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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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To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
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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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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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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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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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