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
Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled… — 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
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea. — 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 concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad.… — 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