Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.”

— Ron Paul

52. “The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.”

— Ron Paul

53. “There’s capital controls and there’s people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.”

— Ron Paul

54. “We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn’t have.”

— Ron Paul

55. “Who’s married and who isn’t married. I have my standards but I shouldn’t have to impose my standards on others. Other people have their standards and they have no right to impose their marriage standards on me.”

— Ron Paul

56. “When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.”

— Ron Paul

57. “Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.”

— Ron Paul

58. “The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.”

— Ron Paul

59. “The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.”

— Ron Paul

60. “Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.”

— Ron Paul

61. “It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule of tyrants and authoritarians. The ideas of Liberty are very new when you consider the big picture. By contrast, various forms of socialism and fascism have been adopted over and over again. Be wary of those who try to present these old and tired ideas as something new and exciting. Liberty and free markets are the way forward if we truly desire peace and prosperity.”

— Ron Paul

62. “People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.”

— Ron Paul

63. “The freedom message brings us together, it doesn’t divide us.”

— Ron Paul

64. “We’re being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down.”

— Ron Paul

65. “The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives – without probable cause and without a warrant.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

67. “Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.”

— Ron Paul

68. “Government should never be able to do anything you can’t do. If you can’t steal from your neighbor, you can’t send the government to steal for you.”

— Ron Paul

69. “In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.”

— Ron Paul

70. “We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.”

— Ron Paul

71. “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.”

— Ron Paul

72. “Of course I’ve already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.”

— Ron Paul

73. “I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.”

— Ron Paul

74. “Rubio’s sudden concern for the humanitarian situation in Venezuela smacks of hypocrisy, as he supported all US sanctions that have made life for Venezuelans miserable.”

— Ron Paul

75. “Equal justice is forgotten in our current judicial system. Wealth, power, and prestige protect the ruling class. The counterfeiters, the warmongers, and the thieves who steal from the treasury go free. Our prisons are filled will nonviolent drug users and disproportionately by minorities and the poor.”

— Ron Paul

76. “Altogether there are about 22 million government busybodies meddling in the lives of Americans.”

— Ron Paul

77. “As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.”

— Ron Paul

78. “I want to be president mainly for what I don’t want to do: I don’t want to run your life, I don’t want to run the economy, and I don’t want to police the world.”

— Ron Paul

79. “While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents.”

— Ron Paul

80. “It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.”

— Ron Paul

81. “Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn’t say anything about gold or silver.”

— Ron Paul

82. “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.”

— Ron Paul

83. “The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome’s did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.”

— Ron Paul

84. “The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.”

— Ron Paul

85. “In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble.”

— Ron Paul

86. “I don’t know how to run your life. I don’t know how to run your life. I don’t have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn’t permit me to run your life.”

— Ron Paul

87. “Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.”

— Ron Paul

88. “The war propaganda effort requires demonizing the enemy, especially the leader of the country targeted. It’s easier to convince people to sacrifice to fight another “Hitler” than an enemy who demonstrates an element of humanity. That is the role of the propagandists: Demonize and build hate regardless of how many lies have to be told.”

— Ron Paul

89. “When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.”

— Ron Paul

90. “If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.”

— Ron Paul

91. “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?”

— Ron Paul

92. “Sadly this process started early in our history with Adams’s Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 and has continued through our history to the present day with Obama reinvigorating the Espionage Act of 1917.”

— Ron Paul

93. “Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free.”

— Ron Paul

94. “If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don’t have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.”

— Ron Paul

95. “In addition to Eisenhower identifying the military-industrial complex, we now have the police-industrial complex, the medical-industrial complex, the surveillance-industrial complex, and the media-industrial complex.”

— Ron Paul

96. “I’m not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don’t think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.”

— Ron Paul

97. “Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and in the affairs of other nations cannot serve the best interests of America.”

— Ron Paul

98. “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

100. “Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.”

— Ron Paul