We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
BARRY GOLDWATERI’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.
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Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
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We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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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.’
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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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.
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I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I’d fit in perfectly.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: “One can disagree without being disagreeable.”
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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History has to judge every man who served. I don’t know how they’re going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won’t lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. 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.
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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.
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When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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