Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
Interpretation
Flying has profound effects on the human spirit that are difficult to articulate.
Barry Goldwater's quote reflects on the transformative experience of flying, suggesting that while the technical aspects of aviation can be explained, the emotional and spiritual uplift that comes from flight is something far more profound and intangible. It speaks to the way flying can expand our horizons and elevate our spirits, providing a sense of freedom and wonder that transcends mere mechanics.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams and aspirations.
I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
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.
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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