Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10 mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.”

— Ron Paul

102. “Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.”

— Ron Paul

103. “I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

105. “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

106. “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

107. “We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.”

— Ron Paul

108. “Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”

— Ron Paul

109. “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.”

— Ron Paul

110. “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

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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.”

— Ron Paul

114. “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

115. “I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world.”

— Ron Paul

116. “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

117. “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

118. “It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We’re against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.”

— Ron Paul

119. “It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny – even varying degrees of it – is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.”

— Ron Paul

120. “If global warming is because of weather changes – which a lot of people believe – there’s not much we can do to change the weather pattern.”

— Ron Paul

121. “There was a time when a willingness to criticize one’s own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.”

— Ron Paul

122. “What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.”

— Ron Paul

123. “I wouldn’t vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.”

— Ron Paul

124. “Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

126. “Government is wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive by its very nature. To get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse, government power has to be dealt with. Government’s legitimacy has to be challenged. Its claims of success must be refuted. The people who desire peace and prosperity must accept the fact that government and the politicians never deliver peace or prosperity.”

— Ron Paul

127. “When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

129. “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?’”

— Ron Paul

130. “We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.”

— Ron Paul

131. “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

132. “Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave.”

— Ron Paul

133. “The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

135. “Close Dept. of Education, but don’t dismantle public schools.”

— Ron Paul

136. “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.”

— Ron Paul

137. “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

138. “By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called ‘diversity’ actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist...”

— Ron Paul

139. “It’s a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It’s a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it’s totally out of control.”

— Ron Paul

140. “I would say nobody is perfect. I don’t know all the answers. I have don’t want to run people’s lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.”

— Ron Paul

141. “Even if you don’t like guns and don’t want to own them, you benefit from those who do.”

— Ron Paul

142. “Today’s events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God’s objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

144. “Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.”

— Ron Paul

145. “I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.”

— Ron Paul

146. “Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.”

— Ron Paul

147. “Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.”

— Ron Paul

148. “September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur.”

— Ron Paul

149. “I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early ’60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.”

— Ron Paul

150. “Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with constitutional protections.”

— Ron Paul