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
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.
Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.
I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.
I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.