Quote

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

Barry Goldwater

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
Aircraft Pilot
Businessperson
Former United States Senator
Military Officer
Photographer
Politician
Phoenix
Arizona
Barry Morris Goldwater
Religious
Freedom
Order
Without
Sanctions
Maintain
Impossible
Justice
Moral

More quotes by Barry Goldwater

Image
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
Barry Goldwater
Image
Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.
Barry Goldwater
Image
If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
Barry Goldwater
Image
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.
Barry Goldwater
Image
I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.
Barry Goldwater
Image
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
Barry Goldwater
Image
I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.
Barry Goldwater
Image
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
Barry Goldwater
Image
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.
Barry Goldwater
Image
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwater
Image
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
Barry Goldwater
Image
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
Barry Goldwater
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.
Barry Goldwater
Image
There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
Barry Goldwater
Image
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
Barry Goldwater
Image
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
Image
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
Barry Goldwater
Image
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
Barry Goldwater