Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”

— Ron Paul

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2. “Don’t steal – the government hates competition!”

— Ron Paul

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3. “Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.”

— Ron Paul

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4. “If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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6. “Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

8. “When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.”

— Ron Paul

9. “The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.”

— Ron Paul

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10. “Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”

— Ron Paul

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11. “Let the revolution begin.”

— Ron Paul

12. “The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.”

— Ron Paul

13. “The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.”

— Ron Paul

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14. “Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.”

— Ron Paul

15. “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.”

— Ron Paul

16. “Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.”

— Ron Paul

17. “There is only one kind of freedom and that’s individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.”

— Ron Paul

18. “This much is true: you have been lied to.”

— Ron Paul

19. “Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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21. “1913 wasn’t a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.”

— Ron Paul

22. “Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.”

— Ron Paul

23. “Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.”

— Ron Paul

24. “Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

26. “Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.”

— Ron Paul

27. “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.”

— Ron Paul

28. “For those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do.”

— Ron Paul

29. “My message is simple – freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.”

— Ron Paul

30. “Terror is a tactic. We can not wage “war” against a tactic.”

— Ron Paul

31. “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.”

— Ron Paul

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32. “But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.”

— Ron Paul

33. “It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot.”

— Ron Paul

34. “There is no such thing as a hate crime.”

— Ron Paul

35. “It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn’t democracy to send in the NGOs to re-write laws and the constitution in places like Ukraine. It is none of our business.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

37. “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.”

— Ron Paul

38. “What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

40. “I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

42. “With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.”

— Ron Paul

43. “If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?”

— Ron Paul

44. “Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.”

— Ron Paul

45. “Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.”

— Ron Paul

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46. “Your money has never been safe in the government’s hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it’s just their nature.”

— Ron Paul

47. “I’m an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.”

— Ron Paul

48. “Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.”

— Ron Paul

49. “Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.”

— Ron Paul

50. “In the end, there is no substitute for clear thinking, logic, and common sense... A better path to enlightenment involves reading and thinking for yourself.”

— Ron Paul