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Barry M. Goldwater Quotes

Type: Politician | Date of Birth: 1909-01-01 | Year of Death: 1998 | Nationality:

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry M. Goldwater

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
Barry M. Goldwater

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry M. Goldwater

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry M. Goldwater

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry M. Goldwater

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Barry M. Goldwater

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 M. Goldwater

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
Barry M. 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 M. Goldwater

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
Barry M. Goldwater

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Barry M. Goldwater

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
Barry M. Goldwater

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry M. Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Barry M. Goldwater

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry M. Goldwater

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Barry M. Goldwater

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
Barry M. Goldwater

To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
Barry M. Goldwater

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
Barry M. Goldwater

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Barry M. Goldwater

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
Barry M. Goldwater

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