84 Quotes by Barry M. Goldwater

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.

I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

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.

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.

But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of States’ Rights by the national Democratic Party – an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the Socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement – as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.