Barry Goldwater Quotes

• American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

  Barry Goldwater

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• You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

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  Tags in Die

• You don’t need to be ‘straight’ to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

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• He had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

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• In your heart, you know I’m right.

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• Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

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• 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

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Freedom

• 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.

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  Tags in Defence, Extremism, Freedom

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

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

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  Tags in Listening

• I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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  Tags in Papers, Say

• I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

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  Tags in Right, Christian

• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.

  Barry Goldwater

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Man

• 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

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government

• I will offer a choice, not an echo.

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• It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president… except me.

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  Topics in Country

• I wouldn’t trust Nixon from here to that phone.

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  Topics in Trust

• If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

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  Tags in Mind

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Dishonest

• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  Barry Goldwater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politician, Promised

Barry Goldwater (29)

Birth:	2nd January, 1909
Death:	29th May, 1998
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Goldwater was born in Phoenix, in what was then the Arizona Territory. Goldwater graduated from Staunton Military Academy, an elite private school in Virginia, and attended the University of Arizona for one year, where he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity. With the American entry into World War II, Goldwater received a reserve commission in the United States Army Air Forces.

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