It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't… — 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
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this,… — 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
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
Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government… — 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
If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Quantitative easing is just the latest chapter in the Federal Reserve’s hundred-year history of failure. (...) The American people have suffered long… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but… — 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 am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of… — 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
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
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
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on… — 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
It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have… — 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
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
Who's married and who isn't married. I have my standards but I shouldn't have to impose my standards on others. Other people… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What's happening is, there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun.… — 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
Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense,… — 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
