128 Quotes by Barry Goldwater

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.

I'm the most underdog underdog there is.

We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river.

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.