Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “We need to take away the government’s money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar’s soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.”

— Ron Paul

202. “Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.”

— Ron Paul

203. “What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for the next generation to get out.”

— Ron Paul

204. “These manipulations are not evidence that evil is a result of religious beliefs. Instead, they show how evil men usurp the authority of religion to promote war. That this tactic can succeed reflects that too much complacency among people is preventing resistance against the thugs who coopt religion and use it for evil ends.”

— Ron Paul

205. “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

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

— Ron Paul

207. “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

208. “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

209. “Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.”

— Ron Paul

210. “I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn’t paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what’s going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.”

— Ron Paul

211. “There’s nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don’t go to war so carelessly.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

214. “To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.”

— Ron Paul

215. “If you’re really serious about protecting people’s incomes, you’ve got to consider how you’re going to protect the dollar. If you don’t have the dollar maintaining its value, no matter where you put the money you’re not going to have any value.”

— Ron Paul

216. “While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars.”

— Ron Paul

217. “If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?”

— Ron Paul

218. “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

219. “Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.”

— Ron Paul

220. “Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.”

— Ron Paul

221. “Today, however, it is often not so much that one Christian nation is fighting another as that hatred has developed between factions of Christianity and factions of Islam. I believe this is a distortion of both religions. Yet the individuals who advocate for war are adamant about the evil of the other side.”

— Ron Paul

222. “I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people’s minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.”

— Ron Paul

223. “I have some help on tweeting.”

— Ron Paul

224. “No time back then or since has there been much discussion of the significance of Roosevelt’s executive order on July 26, 1941 that froze all Japanese assets in the US. This occurred four months before Pearl Harbor. It essentially created an oil embargo on the Japanese. Such sanctions are a deeply flawed policy that we continue to use today, to our detriment.”

— Ron Paul

225. “Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it’s not all because of Medicare.”

— Ron Paul

226. “Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.”

— Ron Paul

227. “They ask me if I’m going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.”

— Ron Paul

228. “Today both the Democratic and Republican parties support the expansive US Empire as well as the neoconservatives’ agitation for a perpetual Global War on Terror. The disagreement we hear between the two parties is only regarding management style and is designed to use political failures and unintended consequences to enhance the power and influence of one party relative to the other.”

— Ron Paul

229. “I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.”

— Ron Paul

230. “Thanks to Edward Snowden and others, the great threat from the NSA surveillance is now more clearly understood. Current attacks on our liberties very greatly infringe the freedoms meant to be protected by the First and Fourth Amendments. If a whistle-blower reveals the truth about wrongful government actions, calls arise to charge him with treason for hating America. Allies become enemies when it becomes known that we spy on them as well, as it has now been revealed.”

— Ron Paul

231. “I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.”

— Ron Paul

232. “You don’t have a right to a house, you don’t have a right to a job, you don’t have a right to medical care.”

— Ron Paul

233. “The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.”

— Ron Paul

234. “As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn’t be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.”

— Ron Paul

235. “People tolerate taxes for a while because they have previously accumulated wealth. As the tax burden grows and productivity falls, tax revenue falls and the only answer seems to be higher taxes. If the people can no longer tolerate higher taxes, government merely borrows and creates new money, and then the inflation tax is paid with higher prices. The whole process destabilizes the political system and eventually becomes a threat to civilized progress.”

— Ron Paul

236. “To decrease the frequency and magnitude of war, those who are conditioned to die in them or pay for them are the ones who must decide they will neither support the wars nor be victimized by them.”

— Ron Paul

237. “There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.”

— Ron Paul

238. “It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn’t be enough money in the bank to sustain it as it is, and that would help prices stay under control.”

— Ron Paul

239. “Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.”

— Ron Paul

240. “I’d like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.”

— Ron Paul

241. “We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods.”

— Ron Paul

242. “Secrecy is paramount for the government and privacy is lost for the citizens during wars as well. Everyone is a suspect and liberty protections are ignored by the empire. The excuse is always that restricting liberty is required to make the people safe from enemies, seldom seen and identified but ever-present and demonized.”

— Ron Paul

243. “No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.”

— Ron Paul

244. “Never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.”

— Ron Paul

245. “So the time line of when we consider a fetus ‘human’ is arbitrary after conception.”

— Ron Paul

246. “If somebody’s in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.”

— Ron Paul

247. “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

248. “Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the expense of the poor and the middle class here at home.”

— Ron Paul

249. “No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It’s that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it’s not moral or that it’s not Constitutional.”

— Ron Paul

250. “Because federal hate-crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.”

— Ron Paul