Author details
All Barry Goldwater Quotes
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Barry Goldwater
58% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
53% of people like this quote
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater
52% of people like this quote
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater
50% of people like this quote
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Barry Goldwater
50% of people like this quote
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater
50% of people like this quote
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
History
49% of people like this quote
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 in
Politics
49% of people like this quote
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry Goldwater
49% of people like this quote
Related authors