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

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.

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!

Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.