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Political Quotes by Ron Paul
- Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and…
- What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that…
- Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end…
- The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our…
- Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
- No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except…
- I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.
- Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary…
- I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long…
- I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically occurs in the…
- Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from…
- Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
- One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
- Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because…
- When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle