Barry Goldwater Quotes
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.
Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
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.
We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.
A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100, 000 in 1962 180 per 100, 000 by 1964.
For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education.
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.
Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.
Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.
Chits knew no ideology.
(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.
Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.
Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.
Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.
A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.