Ron Paul Wisdom Quotes
on Liberty, Sound Economics, Peace

Ron Paul Isms -
The Ron Paul rEVOLution

"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."

~ Ron Paul ~

"Don't steal -
the government hates competition!"

~Ron Paul (from: The Revolution: A Manifesto)~




"Truth is treason
in the empire of lies."

~Ron Paul (sign on his office desk)~




"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."

~Ron Paul (from a house floor speech July 10 2003)~




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

~Ron Paul~




"If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes,
two things would be required:
young people would have to be involved
and you would need music."

~Ron Paul~




"Let the revolution begin."

~Ron Paul~




"May future generations look back on our work
and say that these were men and women who,
in a moment of great crisis,
stood up to their politicians,
the opinion-makers, and the establishment,
and saved their country."

~Ron Paul~


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Ron Paul on Liberty

"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 ~




"... but we have to get people confident that freedom really is the issue and understand how it works, because we have been taught for so long that 'freedom is ok but don't carry it too far'. Well, I would say freedom is freedom, freedom comes from the fact that you are an individual. You get your life and your liberty from your creator, and the government should protect it and never take any of it away from you."

~ Ron Paul
from peech at Texas Republican State Convention 7 June 2012 ~




"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."

~Ron Paul ~




"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula
for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life
is freedom, limited government,
and minding our own business overseas."

~Ron Paul ~




"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."

~Ron Paul ~




"Freedom is not defined by safety.
Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens
to live without government interference.
Government cannot create a world without risks,
nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place.
Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety
as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control
over its citizens' lives.
Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it
when terrible things happen and a
false government security blanket beckons."

~Ron Paul ~




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

~Ron Paul ~




"I'm convinced that you never have to give up Liberties
to be safe.
I think you're less safe
when you give up your liberties."

~Ron Paul ~




"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats,
or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage
on the people is an act of social engineering
profoundly hostile to liberty."

~Ron Paul ~




"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."

~Ron Paul ~

"Ideas are very important to the shaping of society.
In fact, they are more powerful than bombings of armies or guns.
And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit.
They are behind all the choices we make.
They can transform the world in a way that
governments and armies cannot.
Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me
than fighting with guns or politics or political power.
With ideas, we can make real change that lasts."

~Ron Paul ~

"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."

~Ron Paul ~


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Ron Paul on Peace & War

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

~Ron Paul ~




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

~Ron Paul ~



"

Cliches about supporting the troops
are designed to distract from failed policies,
policies promoted by powerful special interests
that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away
from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon."

~Ron Paul ~




"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."

~Ron Paul ~




"Everyone assumes America must play the leading role
in crafting some settlement or compromise between
the Israelis and the Palestinians.
But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned
against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts."

~Ron Paul ~




"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war -
starting wars because someday somebody
might do something to us.
That is not part of the American tradition."

~Ron Paul ~




"I myself have never been an isolationist.
I favor the very opposite of isolation: diplomacy, free trade,
and freedom of travel.
The real isolationists are those who impose sanctions
and embargoes on countries and peoples across the globe
because they disagree with the internal and foreign policies
of their leaders.
The real isolationists are those who choose to use force overseas
to promote democracy, rather than seeking change
through diplomacy, engagement, and by setting a positive example.
The real isolationists are those who isolate their country
in the court of world opinion by pursuing needless belligerence
and war that have nothing to do with
legitimate national security concerns."

~Ron Paul (from the book: The Revolution: A Manifesto)~




"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty
is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man!
Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury
as a price to live free, makes no sense."

~Ron Paul ~

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Ron Paul on Role of Government

"The 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 ~




On the demise of Big Government:
"... we are frequently criticised both on economic policy and foreign policy and we're going back to the old days of isolationism and the old days of the gold standard. But let me tell you, big government is very very old, and big government and inflation and destruction of currency - that is ancient and based on ideas that are wrong. Those who criticize us who want a lot less government - they are the past, and we are the future!"

~ Ron Paul
from peech at Texas Republican State Convention 7 June 2012 ~




"Having federal officials,
whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen,
impose a new definition of marriage on the people
is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty."

~Ron Paul ~




"Governments,
whether they're dictatorships or democracies,
reflect the people.
When the people get fed up,
they throw them out."

~Ron Paul (from: Turn Off the Printing Presses,
Allow the People to Keep What They Earn)~




"I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card.
This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.
The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy
and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government.
We don't need a national ID card."

~Ron Paul from a 2008 election campaign debate~

"When one gets in bed with government,
one must expect the diseases it spreads."

~Ron Paul ~

"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed
and over-regulated and over-run by beurocrats.
The Founders would be ashamed of us
for what we're putting up with.
Matter of fact, if you look at every single problem
we're facing today, it's because of
the lack of respect for the rule of law and the Constitution."

~Ron Paul ~

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Ron Paul on Foreign Aid

"On foreign aid, that should be the easiest thing to cut.
It's not authorized in the Constitution that we can take money
from you and give it to particular countries around the world.
To me, foreign aid is taking money from poor people in a rich country
and giving it to rich people in poor countries

~Ron Paul (from a presidential debate Oct 2011)~




"The over-riding reality is that we simpy cannot afford
to continue the policy of buying friends"

~Ron Paul~




"This is why the whole principle of foreign aid is wrong.
As long as they do what we tell 'em then we give them money.
If they don't do what we tell 'em, we bomb them.
When it comes to Pakistan, we do both -
we bomb them with our drones
and at the same time we give them money
and at the same time they are protecting our biggest enemy"

~Ron Paul
(from an interview about Pakistan with Fox News May 2011)~




"While free trade should be embraced,
foreign aid should be absolutely rejected.
Constitutional, practical and moral arguments compel such a view.
Constitutional authorization for such programs is at best dubious,
morally I cannot justify the violent seizure of property
from Americans in order to redistribute that property
to a foreign government, and usually one that is responsible
for the appalling material condition of its perople.
Surely we can agree that Americans ought not to be doing
forced labour on behalf of other regimes,
and that is exactly what foreign aid is"

~Ron Paul (from The Revolution: A Manifesto)~

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Ron Paul on Economics and The Fed

"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 ~




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

~Ron Paul ~




"I will always vote what I have promised,
and always vote the Constitution,
as well as I will not vote for one single penny
that isn't paid for,
because debt is the monster,
debt is what's going to eat us up
and that is why our economy is on the brink."

~Ron Paul ~




"Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis
because there will be a rejection of the dollar,
the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event,
and then your personal liberties are going to be
severely threatened."

~Ron Paul ~




"The greatest threat facing America today
is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government,
marked by shameless deficit spending and
Federal Reserve currency devaluation.
It is this one-two punch -
Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow,
and the Fed printing money to make up the difference -
that threatens to impoverish us by further
destroying the value of our dollars."

~Ron Paul ~




"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple.
Deficit spending should be viewed as a
tax on future generations,
and politicians who create deficits
should be exposed as tax hikers."

~Ron Paul ~

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Ron Paul on War On Drugs, Hemp, Marijuana

"You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country?
Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws."

~Ron Paul ~




"There's so much violence today, not because people use drugs, but because they're illegal. You know, the people who benefit the most by all these laws, are the drug cartels, they lobby to keep these laws in place because they can't exist without them."

~Ron Paul ~




"If you want to smoke and get marijuana out of hemp, you have to smoke a cigarette as big as a phone pole."

~Ron Paul ~




"They ought to recognise that the best source of ethanol
is not from corn, sugar cane is a lot better,
but the best source is hemp,
but what do we do? We go to jail if we raise hemp."

~Ron Paul ~




"Because marijuana is illegal
and because the plant looks a little like hemp,
we're not allowed to raise hemp in this country."

~Ron Paul ~




"And so, where do hemp products get made?
Up in Canada. And so many of these jobs went to Canada.
Canada takes the hemp, they raise the hemp,
they make these products and they sell them back to us,
then we wonder where our jobs are going."

~Ron Paul ~

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