Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwaterwas an American politician and businessman who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizonaand the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election. Despite losing the election by a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 January 1909
CityPhoenix, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
Barry Goldwater quotes about
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
Nixon should get his ass out of the White House-Today! Barry M
It's wonderful that we have so many religious people in our party, ... They need to leave their theologies in their churches.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
The big thing is to make this country... quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. ... They're American citizens.
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.
I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.