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 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
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he… — 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
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
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
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
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
Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that… — 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
“As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it… — 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
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
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature. — 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
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
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
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
No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on 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
We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making… — 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
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.… — 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
[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
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
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
I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically… — 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
![“[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.” quote by Ron Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a28/ron-paul-686_audience_political-conventions-lend-themselves-to_2026257.jpg)
