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.

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

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

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.

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

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