Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Ron Paul

157. “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

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

— Ron Paul

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Ron Paul

169. “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

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

— Ron Paul

171. “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

172. “If you care about your personal liberty, you’ll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birthright citizenship.”

— Ron Paul

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “Must there always be “wars and rumors of war”? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

178. “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.”

— Ron Paul

179. “A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.”

— Ron Paul

180. “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

181. “One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter.”

— Ron Paul

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182. “The Congress should not be creating money out of thin air, which is what Lincoln did when he created greenbacks. But it is a congressional responsibility to maintain gold and silver as a legal tender.”

— Ron Paul

183. “In the American political lexicon, ‘change’ always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.”

— Ron Paul

184. “We don’t need any troops abroad-they don’t help our defense.”

— Ron Paul

185. “Paul O’Neill, Bush’s first secretary of the treasury, revealed that at the very first National Security Council meeting the subject of attacking Iraq was on the agenda for discussion. O’Neill lasted in the administration until December of 2002 when he was fired for disagreeing with Bush on the Iraq War and for expressing the danger of the large deficits.”

— Ron Paul

186. “The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 was voted on last Friday. Proponents claim this bill will help the environment, but what it really does is put another nail in the economy’s coffin.”

— Ron Paul

187. “Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.”

— Ron Paul

188. “All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.”

— Ron Paul

189. “American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.”

— Ron Paul

190. “Even today, authors who claim correctly, as Patrick Buchanan does in his book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that both World War I and World War II were “unnecessary wars” are shunned and ridiculed. Such a suggestion is so at odds with how history is taught in most US schools that many people are unwilling to even consider arguments backing Buchanan’s conclusion.”

— Ron Paul

191. “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.”

— Ron Paul

192. “If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”

— Ron Paul

193. “I would say that I’m pretty mainstream.”

— Ron Paul

194. “A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal thing; it is not collective. You don’t gain liberty because you belong to a group. So we don’t talk about women’s rights or gay rights or anything else. Everybody has an absolute equal right as an individual, and it comes to them naturally.”

— Ron Paul

195. “Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.”

— Ron Paul

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196. “We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.”

— Ron Paul

197. “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.”

— Ron Paul

198. “If economy were good, there’d be no immigration problem.”

— Ron Paul

199. “Big government flourishes under Republicans.”

— Ron Paul

200. “It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.”

— Ron Paul