A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

— Barry Goldwater

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.

— Barry Goldwater

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

— Barry Goldwater

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

— Barry Goldwater

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

— Barry Goldwater

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.

— Barry Goldwater

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.

— Barry Goldwater

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

— Barry Goldwater

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

— Barry Goldwater

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.

— Barry Goldwater