Barry Goldwater Quotes

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

You cannot influence a political party to do right if you stick to it when it does wrong.

Successful parties create their own monsters.

Parties are not built by deportment.

I no longer know of political party, I only know Germans

We are here today, not so much as to launch a political party but more so and more importantly we are here today to project a vision that will inspire hope.

The French Socialist Party is not merely dying, but it is already dead.

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage -- work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

My party is me.

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

Parties do often nominate losers.

… new truths are often struck out by the collision of parties, in the eagerness of controversy, which otherwise would have lain hid, The divine disapprobation of a form of government by kings, I take to be one of this sort of truths.

As Republics have risen and fallen, a transition from party to personal government has preceded every failure since the world began.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there is a flash of steel between the shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.

I am sorry to say I do doubt the honesty of many men that are called good at home, that have given themselves up to serve a party.

… we need the flexibility and enthusiasm of youth to make any political party respond to the needs of today.

Here are people who murdered folks who were trying to help people get a chance to vote and you’re coming up here to recognize them as members of the Democratic Party when they won’t even say that they will support the nominee…

A nationalist movement seeks its own country. A nationalist party seeks a country that will keep electing it.

There is a higher duty than that we owe political party.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

The two parties represent two opposite moods of the English mind, which may be trusted, unless past experience is wholly useless, to succeed each other from time to time. Neither of them, neither the love of organic changes nor the dislike of it, can be described as normal to a nation. In every nation, they have succeeded each other at varying intervals during the whole of the period which separates its birth from its decay. Each finds in the circumstances and constitution of individuals a regular support which never deserts it. Among men, the old, the phlegmatic, the sober-minded, among classes, those who have more to lose than to gain by change, furnish the natural Conservatives. The young, the envious, the restless, the dreaming, those whose condition cannot easily be made worse, will be rerum novarum cupidi. But the two camps together will not nearly include the nation: for the vast mass of every nation is unpolitical.