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Barry Goldwater Quotes

Total quotes: 52
“Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.”
— Barry Goldwater, Goldwater would have hated ‘Citizens United’
Tagged: Campaign Financing, Democracy
“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, 449 Stupid Things Republicans Have Said
Tagged: Cheating, Infidelity
“The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.”
— Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Tagged: Conservatism
“We shall return to proven ways—not because they are old, but because they are true.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Conservation
“They think I've turned liberal because I believe 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.”
— Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Tagged: Religious Right, Abortion
“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.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Wealth, Power, Politicians
“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
Tagged: Extremism, Liberty, Vice, Moderation
“I have a deep faith in the manhood of American men—and in American women.”
— Barry Goldwater, Text of Senator Goldwater's Address at Madison Sq. Garden in Only Campaign Appearance in city
Tagged: manhood
“The best thing Clinton could do – I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure – is to shut up.... He has no discipline.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Bill Clinton, Discipline
“I'd rather see a woman elected. A woman is closer to life. Eighty-three percent of the money is spent by women. They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home.”
— Barry Goldwater, 'He did a real job on America'
Tagged: Women in Politics
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”
— Barry Goldwater, Benny L. Kass- Too-Good-to-Be-True Tax Myths
Tagged: Income Tax, Government
“It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president...except me.”
— Barry Goldwater, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
Tagged: President
“Never forget, there was only one freedom—only one freedom—on which this nation was founded. That was freedom from government—from too much, oppressive government.”
— Barry Goldwater, Text of Senator Goldwater's Address at Madison Sq. Garden in Only Campaign Appearance in city
Tagged: Freedom, Government
“You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: gay rights
“And I needn't remind you, but I will; it has been during Democratic years that a billion persons were cast into Communist captivity and their fate cynically sealed.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Communism, Democrats
“The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.”
— Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Tagged: Conservatism, Welfare, Dependence
“There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Freedom
“I believe in the great American Dream. I say we can be a people led but not driven, governed, but not ruled; organized, but not regimented; taxed, but not bled.”
— Barry Goldwater, Text of Senator Goldwater's Address at Madison Sq. Garden in Only Campaign Appearance in city
Tagged: American Dream, Taxation
“What kind of a private club are these people running? Whose government is it, anyway ? I used to think it belonged to the people.”
— Barry Goldwater, Text of Senator Goldwater's Address at Madison Sq. Garden in Only Campaign Appearance in city
Tagged: Government
“I voted against the Civil Rights Act and I'd probably vote against it again. No one has the right to tell me who I have the right to rent a room to.”
— Barry Goldwater, 'He did a real job on America'
Tagged: Civil Rights, Freedom of Association
“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.”
— Barry Goldwater, the Ultimate Book of Quotations
Tagged: Hubert Humphrey, Playboy Magazine
“The good Lord raised this mighty Republic to be a home for the brave and to flourish as the land of the free-not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bully of communism.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Collectivism, Communism
“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.”
— Barry Goldwater, At the Abyss
Tagged: Cold War, Vietnam War
“Any government which can promise you everything you want can also take away everything you have.”
— Barry Goldwater, Goldwater
Tagged: Government, Power
“Let us henceforth make war on all monopolies—whether corporate or union. The enemy of freedom is unrestrained power, and the champions of freedom will fight against the concentration of power wherever they find it.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Monopolies, Freedom, Power
“The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: gay rights, discrimination
“Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty. Government represents power in the hands of some men to control and regulate the lives of other men. And power, as Lord Acton said, corrupts men. Absolute power, he added, corrupts absolutely.”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Government, Liberty, Power, Corruption, Lord Acton
“Freedom of association is one of the natural rights of man. Clearly, therefore, it should also be a ‘civil’ right. Right-to-work laws derive from the natural law: they are simply an attempt to give freedom of association the added protection of civil law.”
— Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Tagged: Freedom, Freedom of Association, Civil Rights
“Government should stay the hell out of people's business.”
— Barry Goldwater, Lone Star State of Mind
Tagged: Government, Freedom
“To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.”
— Barry Goldwater, The Peace Officer's Companion
“Women are hard enough to handle now, without giving them a gun.”
— Barry Goldwater, 646 Ways To Stir A Controversy
Tagged: Misogyny, Gun Rights
“We have been led to look upon taxation as merely a problem of public financing: How much money does the government need? We have been led to discount, and often to forget altogether, the bearing of taxation on the problem of individual freedom.”
— Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Tagged: Taxation, Freedom
“I'm the most underdog underdog there is.”
— Barry Goldwater, Nation: The Underdog Underdog
Tagged: Underdogs
“You know, once before a great and self‐governing people gave up their liberty—a liberty far less than ours. They put themselves in the hands of their leader, asking only to be fed and entertained. They traded their votes for ‘bread and circuses.’ They traded their Senate for an emperor.”
— Barry Goldwater, Text of Senator Goldwater's Address at Madison Sq. Garden in Only Campaign Appearance in city
Tagged: Liberty, Roman Empire
“Empty promises are cheap—and cheaper by the dozen.”
— Barry Goldwater, Text of Senator Goldwater's Address at Madison Sq. Garden in Only Campaign Appearance in city
Tagged: promises
“The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today. The challenge is not to find new or different truths, but to learn how to apply established truths to the problems of the contemporary world.”
— Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Tagged: conservatives
“People didn't vote for me -- they thought I'd blow up the world.”
— Barry Goldwater, 'He did a real job on America'
Tagged: vote
“I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.”
— Barry Goldwater, Great American Hypocrites
Tagged: Federal Government
“If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off....I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe.'”
— Barry Goldwater
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, White House
“Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.”
— Barry Goldwater, GOLDWATER TURNS TO RIGHTS ISSUE
Tagged: Integration, Segregation, Coercion
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