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Ron Paul Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.”
— Ron Paul, Foreign Policy of Freedom
Tagged: War
“Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.”
— Ron Paul, Transcript of Farewell Address- Campaign for Liberty
Tagged: Patriotism, protest
“In the American political lexicon, ‘change’ always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.”
— Ron Paul, Ron Paul Quotes
Tagged: libertarian, Police State, Big Government
“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”
— Ron Paul, Quotes that sum up the essence of Ron Paul
Tagged: Government
“You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.”
— Ron Paul, Quotes that sum up the essence of Ron Paul
Tagged: War on Drugs, Crime
“Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”
— Ron Paul, Ron Paul’s Speech at CPAC 2011: The Brushfires of Freedom Are Burning!
Tagged: Foreign Aid, Wealth, Poverty
“There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.”
— Ron Paul, Quotes that sum up the essence of Ron Paul
Tagged: Freedom, Liberty, Libertarianism
“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”
— Ron Paul, Quotes that sum up the essence of Ron Paul
Tagged: Founding Fathers, Taxes
“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 bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.”
— Ron Paul, Freedom Under Siege
Tagged: Liberty, Foreign Wars, Bankruptcy
“Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?”
— Ron Paul, Ron Paul Booed for Advocating the ‘Golden Rule’
Tagged: golden rule, Foreign Policy
“We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.”
— Ron Paul
Tagged: Liberty, Big Government
“One only needs to reflect on the dramatic decline in the value of the dollar that has taken place since the Fed was established in 1913. The goods and services you could buy for $1.00 in 1913 now cost nearly $21.00. Another way to look at this is from the perspective of the purchasing power of the dollar itself. It has fallen to less than $0.05 of its 1913 value. We might say that the government and its banking cartel have together stolen $0.95 of every dollar as they have pursued a relentlessly inflationary policy.”
— Ron Paul, Ron Paul Quotes
Tagged: Federal Reserve, Taxes, Bankers, Inflation
“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.”
— Ron Paul, Freedom Under Siege
Tagged: Violence, Freedom, rights, Self-Defense
“Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!”
— Ron Paul, Has Capitalism Failed?
Tagged: Capitalism, Fiat Currency, Price Controls
“Every election season America is presented with a series of false choices. Should we launch preemptive wars against this country or that one? Should every American neighborhood live under this social policy or that one? Should a third of our income be taken away by an income tax or a national sales tax? The shared assumptions behind these questions, on the other hand, are never cast in doubt, or even raised.”
— Ron Paul, Ron Paul Quotes
Tagged: Income Tax, Foreign Wars
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