Barry Goldwater Quotes

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

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.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

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 Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

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.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

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.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

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.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

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.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.