When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.
Ron PaulYou don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
Ron PaulThe 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 PaulThe catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.
Ron Paul