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
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
Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“I'm worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone. --Ron Paul” — 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
The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from… — 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
Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles… — 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
Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons — 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