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Ron Paul Quotes - Page 4

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Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

Gun, Benefits, Want

Ron Paul (2011). “Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom”, p.95, Hachette UK

If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.

Giving Up, Thinking, Support You

You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

Healthy, Sound, Serious

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that would be too bold a stroke, for it would then be obvious to all what kind of counterfeiting operation the government is running. The present system combining taxation and inflation is akin to watering the milk; too much water and the people catch on.

Running, Government, People

The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and community. The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. This is of greater importance than working on changing the government; that is secondary to promoting a virtuous society. If we can achieve this, then the government will change.

Fall, Responsibility, Hands

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

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

Racism, Enemy, Libertarianism

Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 4, 2008.

Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

Government, America, Long

To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We are deeply involved in an interventionist-planned economy that allows major benefits to accrue to the politically connected of both political parties. One may condemn the fraud and the current system, but it must be called by its proper names Keynesian inflationism, interventionism, and corporatism.

Party, Names, Political

Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.44, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

Gun, Might, Firsts

Twitter post from Jan 25, 2013

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Army

What's happening is there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system that we have. When you inflate a currency or destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out, so the people who get to use the money first, which is created by the Federal Reserve System, benefit, so the money gravitates to the banks and to Wall Street. That's why you have more billionaires than ever before.

Money, Wall, Class

Republican Presidential debate in Dearborn, Mich., www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2007.

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 Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.

Religious, Father, Writing

"The War on Religion" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. December 30, 2003.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Country, Years, Pieces

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Strong, Should Have, Temptation

Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

War, Sacrifice, Loss

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

School, Government, Parent

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Jim Crow Laws, Vote, Law

"Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 8, 2009.

Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their slaves. Moreover, by this method the State achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between State-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the State.

Struggle, Law, Class

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.

Government, Liberty, Kind

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.

Agency, Government, Needs

Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.431, Ludwig von Mises Institute

First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we have delivered to a secretive body the privilege of creating money out of thin air; if you or I did it, we'd be called counterfeiters, so why have we legalized counterfeiting? But the economic reasons are overwhelming: the Federal Reserve is the creature that destroys value.

Money, Creating, Air

YouTube Channel "voytechs"/"MSBNC - Ron Paul the fed caused the bubble", www.youtube.com. March 20, 2008.

The Congress should not be creating money out of thin air, which is what Lincoln did when he created greenbacks. But it is a congressional responsibility to maintain gold and silver as a legal tender.

Responsibility, Air, Creating

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control.

Country, Military, Mistake

Television interview, 1987.

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

Liberty, Protect, Ifs

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

Liberty, Wealth, Said

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