While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The big thing is to make this country... quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
![“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God…” quote by Barry Goldwater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d3/barry-goldwater-3353_acting_mark-my-word-if-and-when-these-preachers_1781309.jpg)
