18 Quotes by Barry Goldwater
- The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
- You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
- You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
- Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
- When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
- The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
- It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
- If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
- If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
- American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
- To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
- 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.
- I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
- I will offer a choice, not an echo.
- Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
- 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.
- I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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