84 Quotes by Barry M. Goldwater

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

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

I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

But the framers were not visionaries. They knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.