Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.”

— Ron Paul

202. “During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.”

— Ron Paul

203. “I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.”

— Ron Paul

204. “In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.”

— Ron Paul

205. “Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?”

— Ron Paul

206. “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

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

— Ron Paul

208. “The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.”

— Ron Paul

209. “The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.”

— Ron Paul

210. “When you have war, whether it’s a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they’re more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.”

— Ron Paul

211. “Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.”

— Ron Paul

212. “Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?”

— Ron Paul

213. “The American people are sick and tired of Washington and the people who have been in charge have been passing all these bills and I’ve been voting no all of the time and vote no on these appropriation bills.”

— Ron Paul

214. “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

215. “There’s a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights – and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician, if I cause any harm to a fetus, I will be sued. If someone kills or harms a fetus they’re liable in a court of law.”

— Ron Paul

216. “Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.”

— Ron Paul

217. “Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.”

— Ron Paul

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218. “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

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

— Ron Paul

220. “The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”

— Ron Paul

221. “The only thing we should prohibit is violence.”

— Ron Paul

222. “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

223. “True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.”

— Ron Paul

224. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

227. “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

228. “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

229. “I think it’s a theory, the theory of evolution and I don’t accept it as a theory.”

— Ron Paul

230. “Some people charge that Obama is a socialist. He isn’t a socialist in the precise sense of the word. He supports corporate medicine, central banking and international banking elites, the military-industrial complex, and, with great exuberance, the surveillance-industrial complex.”

— Ron Paul

231. “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

232. “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

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233. “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

234. “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

235. “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

236. “But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.”

— Ron Paul

237. “There’s not much you can do about the bias of the media other than try to counteract it by putting the truth out best you can, and the Internet has been a great weapon for holding the media accountable.”

— Ron Paul

238. “The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of your income and I permit you to keep 5%, 10% or 20%. You’re vulnerable, you’ve sold out. The government can take 80% if they want, which they did at one time.”

— Ron Paul

239. “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

240. “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

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241. “Refuting the false promises requires philosophic understanding of economic interventionism, central banking, and the deeply flawed foreign policy of meddling in the affairs of other nations.”

— Ron Paul

242. “No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

244. “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

245. “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

246. “The system that existed in Germany at that time tragically prevented the people from protecting themselves from tyrannical government. This is a system many people vehemently want to impose in America.”

— Ron Paul

247. “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

248. “I believe individuals have a right to life and liberty and that physical aggression should be used only defensively. We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. That, and not a desire for “economic efficiency,” is the primary moral reason for opposing government intrusions into our lives: government is force, not reason. People.”

— Ron Paul

249. “I have some help on tweeting.”

— Ron Paul

250. “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