Top 40 Ron Paul Quotes

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 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.

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

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

I would say that I’m pretty mainstream.

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

I have some help on tweeting.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

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.

Though I don’t personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.

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.

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.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

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.

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.

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

When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class.

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.

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

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

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.

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

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

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world’s great religions.

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

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

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

What we should all argue for is the use of freedom rather than having a monetary system with regulation domination that is run by a cartel and the special interests – that is the kind of system we have today.

We spend too much, we borrow too much, and we distort the markets. The bigger the distortions have lasted, the bigger the bust will be.

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

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.

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

You don’t have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

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.

Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

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?’

We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that anything that wants to substitute for the American dollar should be permitted.

Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

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.

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.