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
Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation… — 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 World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social… — 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
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at]… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Freedom means not only that our economic activity ought to be free and voluntary, but that government should stay out of our… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What you are inferring is, If we were to legalise heroin tomorrow everybody would use heroin. How many people here would start… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making… — 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
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it… — 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
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