Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

205. “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

206. “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

207. “It’s not like I’m just trying to win and get elected. I’m trying to change the course of history.”

— Ron Paul

208. “You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let’s just get rid of all the drug laws.”

— Ron Paul

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Ron Paul

214. “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

215. “Once a war is underway the process of deceit continues with regard to the troops who return with broken bodies and broken minds, especially when the wars were never justified. Admitting that the wars are senseless and in vain is too much to bear.”

— Ron Paul

216. “Critics become criminals since truth is anathema to an empire or any authoritarian government that depends on lies for its existence. The informant who provides the people with the truth cannot be protected by whistle-blower laws or the Constitution. It is the truth-tellers who are sent to prison or are killed while those who undermine our Constitution are promoted. This lasts until the corrupt government is dismantled.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

219. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.”

— Ron Paul

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

231. “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

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

233. “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

234. “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

235. “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

236. “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

237. “What you are inferring is, If we were to legalise heroin tomorrow everybody would use heroin. How many people here would start using heroin? I bet nobody would. Oh yeah, I need the government to take care of me. I don’t want to use heroin, so I need these laws.”

— Ron Paul

238. “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

239. “Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.”

— Ron Paul

240. “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

241. “I have some help on tweeting.”

— Ron Paul

242. “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

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

245. “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

246. “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

247. “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

248. “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

249. “It still amazes me how complicit the media are in propagandizing for war. This is true whether it’s a Republican or Democratic-leaning entity. Both sides spout the lies delivered by government officials to encourage public support for wars. Whether the president is a Republican or a Democrat, the media will be supportive. It just may be that the owners of the large media entities are closely connected to the military-industrial complex.”

— Ron Paul

250. “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