Ron Paul Quotes

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Ron Paul Quotes

PERSONAL & CIVIL LIBERTY
"There's a serious attack on our personal liberties — your rights, your privacy, passing bills out of a panic mode and passing things like the Patriot Act. it does not help your personal liberty. I'd like to get rid of the Patriot Act to tell you the truth."

“I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.”

“You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.”

"The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers."

“Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.”

TAX & ECONOMY
“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”

THE WAR ON TERROR & THE PATRIOT ACT
“A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also be suspicious of others. The government designs these messages to make us feel dependent and heavily lorded over in every aspect of our lives. These messages are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting us even in grocery stores when we are shopping.”

PRINCIPLES & INTEGRITY
"Unlike my opponents, I'm not running from my voting record. I'm not running from my public statements. I'm not running from my predictions.
I'm running on them."

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NON-PREEMPTIVE WAR & MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
"When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists. "

“It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.”

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”

"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. "

"Our foolish policy in Iraq invites terrorist attacks against U.S. territory and incites the Islamic fundamentalists against us."

LIMITED, CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
"I just am not frightened by a free society. I'm frightened by those individuals who prevent us from having a free society."

"In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats."

"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people."

“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”

"Every government, democratic or not, is capable of tyranny. We must understand this if we hope to remain a free people."

"I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink."

"I will continue in my uncompromising opposition to appropriations not authorized within the enumerated powers of the Constitution."

QUOTES BY OTHER PATRIOTS & LEADERS IN HISTORY

Thomas Jefferson

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Benjamin Franklin

"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."

John F. Kennedy

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”