Ron Paul Quotes

• If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate.

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  Topics in Politics

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

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

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Constitution, Tax

• When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad

• A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Interest

• 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.

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  Topics in Country

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

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• Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Freedom

• Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crisis, Believe

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, American

• All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Another

• Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Play

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Future

• Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Real

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Social

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debt, Noticed

• have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Support, Troops

• If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Live

• How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don’t police the world. That’s conservative, it’s Republican, it’s pro-American – it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humble, Win

Ron Paul (44)

Birth:	20th August, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Physician, Politician

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Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author, and politician who has been serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district, which includes Galveston, since 1997.

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