Ron Paul Quotes and Quotations
Ron Paul’s principles of freedom cut across all social and economic barriers, because, as he says freedom is contagious. Ron Paul Quotes “A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also be suspicious of others. The government designs these messages to make us feel dependent and heavily lorded over in every aspect of our lives. These messages are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting us even in grocery stores when we are shopping.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Americans deserve sound money that cannot be manipulated and created out of thin air by central planners who deceitfully promise prosperity. Fiat money caused this European crisis and the financial crisis before it. More fiat money is not the cure.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “Any power a government arrogates to itself, it is loathe to give back to the people. The history of this nation is filled with examples of increasing and unconstitutional centralization of power by the federal government.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “A supply of gold and silver that is limited in supply by nature cannot be inflated, and thus serves as a check on the growth of government.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “As a commander-in-chief, I could neutralize some of the antagonism in the Middle East. Why are we threatening and ready to spread the war into Iran?” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces. -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Expanding our foreign military intervention overseas as a cure for the attacks against us, tragically, only guarantees even more attacks. We must someday wake up, be honest with ourselves, and reject the notion that we're spreading freedom and America's goodness around the world.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Few Americans give much thought to the Federal Reserve System or monetary policy in general. But even as they strive to earn a living, and hopefully save or invest for the future, Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank are working insidiously against them. Day by day, every dollar you have is being devalued.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Fiat dollars allow us to live beyond our means, but only for so long. History shows that when the destruction of monetary value becomes rampant, nearly everyone suffers and the economic and political structure becomes unstable.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate
“Freedom is contagious.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Government must obey the law that it expects other people to obey and thereby must never use force to mold behavior, manipulate social outcomes, manage the economy, or tell other countries how to behave.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “Historically, legal tender laws have been used by governments to force their citizens to accept debased and devalued currency.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “How can we justify to the unemployed and underemployed in the United States the incredible cost of maintaining a global empire?” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “I agree with the ideas put forward by our founding fathers and codified in the Second Amendment to our constitution. Namely, the government has absolutely no authority to infringe upon the individual's right to keep and bear arms.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “I believe the U.S. should not intervene in the internal affairs of other countries nor in regional disputes across the globe. We should maintain friendly relations with other nations and a military which is capable of defending our nation from acts of aggression.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “I'd let young people get out of Social Security and have them get options to have their own medical care, because I was raised at a time when medical care was provided by a lot of people. And they had no government programs. And I never saw anybody out in the streets.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “If we want to tide some people over here, the only way we can take care of the people who are sick and dependent on government programs is by cutting somewhere else. And I say we have to cut our empire back in order to save our economy here.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “If you want to get high on hemp, you’d have to have a cigarette as big as a phone pole.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “If you want to limit the things government can do, you must take political action – because failing to make your own political decisions means that you are allowing somebody else to make those choices for you.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “I'm a strict constitutionalist. But that means that you're a libertarian if you believe in the Constitution.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “I have been influenced by a number of thinkers, as I said our American founders and others have shaped my political beliefs. Certainly mentioning one or two men by name, I would say economists Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “In addition, the Federal Reserve, our central bank, fosters runaway debt by increasing the money supply — making each dollar in your pocket worth less. The Fed is a private bank run by unelected officials who are not required to be open or accountable to ‘we the people.’” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “In terms of keeping stable prices, the Fed has failed miserably. According to the government's own CPI calculators, it takes $2.65 today to purchase what cost one dollar in 1980. And since its creation in 1913, the Federal Reserve has presided over a 98% decline in the dollar's purchasing power.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “I think citizens should be representing us in Congress and the work should be reduced. We should cut their pay in half and let them go home and work.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “It was with great pleasure and hope that I observed the collapse of the Soviet Empire between 1989 and 1991. This breakup verified the early predictions by the free market economists, like Ludwig von Mises, that communism would self-destruct because of the deeply flawed economic theories embedded in socialism.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “Justly acquired property is privately owned by individuals and voluntary groups, and this ownership cannot be arbitrarily voided by governments.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Little by little, in the name of fighting terrorism, our Bill of Rights is being repealed. The 4th amendment has been rendered toothless by the PATRIOT Act. No more can we truly feel secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects when now there is an exception that fits nearly any excuse for our government to search and seize our property.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Maintaining world domination is based on an intellectually and financially bankrupt idea that generates dependency, war, loss of civil liberties, inflation and debt, all of which contribute to our economic crisis.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “Most Americans are oblivious to the entire issue of monetary policy. We all deal with the consequences of our fiat money system, however. Every dollar created dilutes the value of existing dollars in circulation.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “People don't believe the government any more. They think the government is that group of people who take money from us and pass it out in places like New Orleans and accomplish nothing. You know, they don't see any success. They've given up.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Prohibition on drugs doesn’t work.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Rights belong to individuals, not groups; they derive from our nature and can neither be granted nor taken away by government.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The Bill of Rights has no exemptions for "really bad people" or terrorists or even non-citizens. It is a key check on government power against any person. That is not a weakness in our legal system; it is the very strength of our legal system.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The Bill of Rights is there precisely because the founders wanted to set a very high bar for the government to overcome in order to deprive an individual of life or liberty.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “The Constitution is not some aspirational statement of values, allowing exceptions when convenient, but rather, it is the law of the land. It is the basis of our Republic and our principal bulwark against tyranny.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The 5th amendment is rather clear, you cannot take life without due process of law, so if you throw that out the window casually I think it’s a very serious matter.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The founders were a war-weary people, and the requirement that it would take an act of Congress to go to war was intentional.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The greatest threat facing America today is not terrorism, or foreign economic competition, or illegal immigration. The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The only way to return to a sound economy is for the Federal Reserve to cease and desist its monetary manipulation and allow interest rates to be determined by markets, just as the price of goods, services, and labor should be determined by markets. Everything the Fed is doing by pumping money into the economy benefits only the insolvent, too-big-to-fail banks.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George…Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “The policy of American domination of the world, as nation builder-in-chief and policeman of the world, has failed and must be abandoned – if not as a moral imperative, then certainly out of economic necessity.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “They're going to print the money, create the inflation, and cause the cost of medicine to go up. We're on a foolhardy course that has to be changed.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Under our current form of special interest corporatism certain businesses are granted too-big-to-fail status and are never allowed to go bankrupt. They keep profits generated during the good times generated by the Fed's monetary inflation, yet their losses are socialized through inflationary bailouts.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states “accountable” for their education performance…In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “We do not need to be occupying Europe and Japan, Korea, all these countries. We have troops in 130 countries. We have 750 bases around the world. We can't afford it, and it causes trouble for us.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Quotes “We have a system now that just encourages very, very expensive medicine, and it diminishes the chances of the poor people to have medical care.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “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.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Why do we need a Department of Education? And why should we have this Department of Agriculture, just to subsidize farmers? You take money from the taxpayers; you subsidize farmers; then, the taxpayers pay for higher prices in the grocery store.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate “Young people, especially, don't expect to get any Social Security. So conditions are just ripe for this, because we have an imminent bankruptcy coming on. And people are sensing this.” -- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Return to Top of Ron Paul Quotes Ron Paul Quotes Updated 01/15/2011 Leave Ron Paul Quotes and Return to Famous Quotes |
