I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
BARRY GOLDWATERYou don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
-
-
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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 -
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
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 -
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 -
Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
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.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
BARRY GOLDWATER -
It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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