Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA as well as being a major inspiration for many of his youthful followers to join the libertarian movement. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. A five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-87), he was the Republican Party candidate for the U.S. President in the 1964 election which he lost to Lyndon B. Johnson.

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
— 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 pursuit of justice is no virtue.
— 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

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