Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATERPerserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
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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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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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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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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 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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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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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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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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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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 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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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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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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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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