“Patriotism never demands obedience to the state but rather obedience to the principles of liberty.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled, — Ron Paul Copy Share
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share
Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections. — Ron Paul Copy Share
“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.” — Ron Paul Copy Share
Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another… — Ron Paul Copy Share
Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it… — Ron Paul Copy Share
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… — Ron Paul Copy Share
I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes. — Ron Paul Copy Share
Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by… — Ron Paul Copy Share
