Ron Paul
The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.Collection: Home
The only thing we should prohibit is violence.Collection: Violence
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?Collection: Land
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.Collection: Order
The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.Collection: Government
Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and in the affairs of other nations cannot serve the best interests of America.Collection: Government
A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.Collection: Revolution
Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.Collection: Thinking
If you're really serious about protecting people's incomes, you've got to consider how you're going to protect the dollar. If you don't have the dollar maintaining its value, no matter where you put the money you're not going to have any value.Collection: Money
Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?Collection: War
If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?Collection: Wish
We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.Collection: Country
Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.Collection: Political
Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.Collection: Basketball
For those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do.Collection: Jesus
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.Collection: Dollars
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to put people who are sick and dying with cancer and are being helped with marijuana if they have multiple sclerosis - the federal government is going in there and overriding state laws and putting people like that in prison.Collection: Cancer
What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for the next generation to get out.Collection: Mean
All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray. You don't get your rights belonging to your group. A group can't force themselves on anybody else. So there should be no affirmative action for any group.Collection: Rights
In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.Collection: Sacrifice
As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.Collection: Baby
The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.Collection: Wicked Person
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is that there will come a time when we will have to buy a government permit just to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from our own lungs!Collection: Government
Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.Collection: Islamic
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.Collection: Freedom
Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.Collection: Ideas
Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.Collection: Hate
The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 was voted on last Friday. Proponents claim this bill will help the environment, but what it really does is put another nail in the economy’s coffin.Collection: Friday
The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want; our intellectual liberty, but it also should protect our right to do to our body what we want, you know, what we take into our bodies.Collection: Religious
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.Collection: Money
So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.Collection: Abortion
Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.Collection: Abortion
It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't be enough money in the bank to sustain it as it is, and that would help prices stay under control.Collection: War
And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.Collection: Believe
I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.Collection: Crazy
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.Collection: Political Opinions
I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.Collection: Thinking
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.Collection: Country
There is no such thing as a hate crime.Collection: Hate
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.Collection: Promise
I take my marching orders from the Constitution.Collection: Order
It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.Collection: World
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.Collection: Government
Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified.Collection: Moving
Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave.Collection: Country
We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.Collection: Ignorance
I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.Collection: Thinking
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.Collection: Government
You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.Collection: Freedom