12 Quotes & Sayings By Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater was an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Arizona from 1953 until his death in 1998. In 1953, he lost the Republican nomination for President of the United States to Dwight D. Eisenhower, but then narrowly lost the general election to the Democratic candidate, John F. Kennedy Read more

He was a conservative Republican and a leading advocate of laissez-faire economics and hardline foreign policy positions during the Cold War. A controversial figure during his lifetime, Goldwater is remembered for his sometimes extreme positions on civil rights, liberalism, and government regulation of business. He is also remembered for his kooky sense of humor as evidenced by his wacky campaign ads and as a result of his popular novel about President Franklin D.

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. Barry Goldwater
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I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater
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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true. Barry Goldwater
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. Barry Goldwater
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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? Barry Goldwater
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater
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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. Barry Goldwater
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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. Barry Goldwater
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. Barry Goldwater
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. Barry Goldwater