Barry Goldwater Famous Quotes
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
"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."
I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
Barry Goldwater Quotations
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
H L Mencken
"'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'"
Charles Dickens
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up."
Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
Ivern Ball
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
Richard Feynman
"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."
John Wyndham
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
Saint Ambrose
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Henry Ward Beecher