Ron Paul Quotes

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.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

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

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

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.

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.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

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.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

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?'

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

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.

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.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

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

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

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.

Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.

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?

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.