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 GOLDWATERYou don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
-
-
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being 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 -
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
The fellow has absolutely no principles.”Money and gall” is all he has.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
BARRY GOLDWATER