Barry Goldwater Quotes

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Don’t apologize for your values. Tell the world why you are proud of America …. Being American means being free …

We can only solve our biggest problems if we come together and embrace the freedoms that our Founding Fathers established right here in Philadelphia, which permitted our ancestors to create the great American exceptionalism that all of us now enjoy.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America.

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America.

Hey, it’s the American way.

Only Americans can say, My homeland is freedom.

No one expresses and demonstrates American values more than the American People.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,” begins the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Who holds these truths? Americans hold these truths. Who are Americans? People who adhere to these truths. National identity and political principle were inseparable.

All nations are imagined communities, and our imagined community is based on a uniquely inspiring set of principles. Americans have proved that they can be loyal to, and will fight on behalf of, a more complex, more cerebral national ideal, one derived from ideas of democracy and justice as opposed to blood and soil.

America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country.

The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.