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Ron Paul Quotes - Page 2

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The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

Historical, Federal Reserve, Counterfeit

We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who are losing it. We don't have enough competition. There's a doctor monopoly out there. We need alternative health care freely available to the people. They ought to be able to make their own choices and not controlled by the FDA preventing them to use some of the medications.

Class, Fda, Doctors

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

Civilization, Liberty, Built

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

Running, Strong, Hard Work

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Self, Defense, Use

Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.

Rights, People, Able

Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

Worry, Understanding, Hearing

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Real, Government, Challenges

Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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 at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

Government, Giving, Challenges

Television interview, 1987.

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

Gold, Want, Constitution

Source: www.foxnews.com

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

Kings, Safety, Brave

"The Patriotism Smear". Ron Paul's speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, www.lewrockwell.com. May 22, 2007.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

War, Sacrifice, Liberty

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Peace, War, I Hate You

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Money, War, Historical

"Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

Government, Essence, Giving

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

Views, Racism, Groups

"Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

Government, America, Long

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

Lying, War, Order

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

Should, Deficit Spending, Preventive War

Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Government, Enemy, Liberty

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Income, World, Taxes

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

Good Years, Income, Irs

We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

Important, Tunes, Dollars

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

Mistake, Rights, Long

My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

Mean, Government, Views

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