Ron Paul Quotes:
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let’s just get rid of all the drug laws.
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
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Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism.
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
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Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
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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.
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Well, I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.
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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.
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don’t police the world. That’s conservative, it’s Republican, it’s pro-American – it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
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What is not conservative about saying, ‘Don’t go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?’
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There’s nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don’t go to war so carelessly.
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Of course I’ve already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
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