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
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty… — 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
I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity… — 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
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a… — 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
When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We… — 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
[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
Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we… — 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
I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not. — 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
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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