Barry Goldwater Quotes

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Justice, Liberty, Virtue

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

Fight, Country, Die

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

Equality, Time, Liberty

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

Government, Single, Act

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

Politics, Women, Government

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

Politics, Justice, Liberty

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

Death, Fight, Impossible

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

History, Wife, Him

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater

Good, Christian, Kick

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater

Able, Military, Straight

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

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

Business, Fool, Around

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

Good, Mind, Two

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry Goldwater

Business, American, Forgotten

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

War, Month, Vietnam

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

Forget, Hit, Whenever

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

Life, Family, Wife

I will offer a choice, not an echo.
Barry Goldwater

Choice, Echo, Offer

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Barry Goldwater

Great, Country, President

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
Barry Goldwater

Trust, Here, Phone

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

Place, Succeed, Meeting

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

Dead, Politician

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.
Barry Goldwater

Today, Sometimes, Won

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: January 1, 1909

Died: May 29, 1998

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