- “To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering” ~Barry Goldwater
- “Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” ~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
- “How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. … But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. … We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system.” ~Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)
- “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 (1909-1998)
- “The turn will come when we entrust the conduct of our affairs to men who understand that their first duty as public officials is to divest themselves of the power they have been given. It will come when Americans, in hundreds of communities throughout the nation, decide to put the man in office who is pledged to enforce the Constitution and restore the Republic.” ~Senator Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)
Absolute Power
- “Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.” —Sen. Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)
