Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed, — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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 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
I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful… — 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
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
My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government. — 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
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 role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what… — 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… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal… — 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
It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal… — 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
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
Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses. — 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
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
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
Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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