Barry Goldwater

Politician

1909-01-02 – 1998-05-29

Barry Goldwater was an American politician and businessman who served as a U.S. senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in 1964 and a central figure in modern American conservatism.

Quotes by Barry Goldwater

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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.
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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.
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Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy.
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
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