Ron Paul Quotes

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.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.

I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.

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.

Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Let the revolution begin.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many.

I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world.

The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When you destroy a currency by creating money out of thin air to pay the bills, the value of the dollar goes down, and people get hit with a higher cost of living. It's the middle class that's being wiped out. It is most evil of all taxes.

Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty.

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.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

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

Don't steal - the government hates competition!

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

Who's married and who isn't married. I have my standards but I shouldn't have to impose my standards on others. Other people have their standards and they have no right to impose their marriage standards on me.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

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.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.