Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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55. “The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want; our intellectual liberty, but it also should protect our right to do to our body what we want, you know, what we take into our bodies.”

— Ron Paul

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

68. “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

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69. “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

70. “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.”

— Ron Paul

71. “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

72. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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74. “Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.”

— Ron Paul

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75. “You can’t have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we’re on the verge of very serious economic problem.”

— Ron Paul

76. “You don’t quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.”

— Ron Paul

77. “America’s heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution.”

— Ron Paul

78. “Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.”

— Ron Paul

79. “The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.”

— Ron Paul

80. “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

81. “Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.”

— Ron Paul

82. “Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism.”

— Ron Paul

88. “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

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

— Ron Paul

90. “It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.”

— Ron Paul

91. “I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.”

— Ron Paul

92. “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.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

94. “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.”

— Ron Paul

95. “Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.”

— Ron Paul

96. “It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.”

— Ron Paul

97. “When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.”

— Ron Paul

98. “I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.”

— Ron Paul

99. “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

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

— Ron Paul