It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
BARRY GOLDWATERTo insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
-
-
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
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 -
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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 -
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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 -
We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
In your heart you know he’s right.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
BARRY GOLDWATER