Ron Paul Quotes

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

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

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.

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.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

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

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

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.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

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

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

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

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

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!

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.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

There is no such thing as a hate crime.

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.

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.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

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

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

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.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

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.

Don't steal - the government hates competition!

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

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

As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.

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.

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

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

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

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.