Barry Goldwater Quotes

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

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.

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

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

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

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

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

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

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.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.