Quotes from Barry 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!

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

to disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States

I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away

He]talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

I have little interest in streamlining the government or in making it more efficient, for I intend to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

Now, we Americans understand freedom. We have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's model in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. But, ladies and gentlemen, first we must renew freedom's mission in our own hearts and in our own homes.

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.

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.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.

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

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

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.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

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

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

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

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.