Quotes from Barry Goldwater

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.

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

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

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

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

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

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.

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.