Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

— Barry Goldwater

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

— Barry Goldwater

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education,…

— Barry Goldwater

Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of…

— Barry Goldwater

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

— Barry Goldwater

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four…

— Barry Goldwater

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

— Barry Goldwater

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main…

— Barry Goldwater

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends,…

— Barry Goldwater

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

— Barry Goldwater

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no…

— Barry Goldwater

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

— Barry Goldwater

I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air…

— Barry Goldwater

Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and…

— Barry Goldwater

Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once…

— Barry Goldwater

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by…

— Barry Goldwater

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

— Barry Goldwater

“I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to…

— Barry Goldwater

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization…

— Barry Goldwater

I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but…

— Barry Goldwater

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

— Barry Goldwater

History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst…

— Barry Goldwater

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a…

— Barry Goldwater

The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on…

— Barry Goldwater

On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their…

— Barry Goldwater