Barry Goldwater Political Quotations

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

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.

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

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

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.