Top 300 Ron Paul Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “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

260. “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

261. “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

262. “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

263. “Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. And when the tides turn and the culture again celebrates what it means to be free, our battle will be won. It could happen in our time. It might happen after we are gone from this earth. But it will happen. Our job in this generation is to prepare the way.”

— Ron Paul

264. “Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.”

— Ron Paul

265. “If Iran invaded Israel, it’s up to Congress to declare war.”

— Ron Paul

266. “Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.”

— Ron Paul

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

— Ron Paul

268. “I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that’s the law there.”

— Ron Paul

269. “Scientifically, there’s no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.”

— Ron Paul

270. “Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world’s great religions.”

— Ron Paul

271. “I see the Bush Doctrine as an American-style “enabling act,” giving dictatorial powers to any sitting president.”

— Ron Paul

272. “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

273. “Giving up on the ancient tradition of trusting in the god-kings for protection and sustenance is the real challenge.”

— Ron Paul

274. “If people won’t spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.”

— Ron Paul

275. “Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?”

— Ron Paul

276. “We could have done with a lot less of the militarism of the 20th century. We’ll have a lot less militarism as the 21st century progresses because there will be no money to pay for it.”

— Ron Paul

277. “The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.”

— Ron Paul

278. “The woman was probably six months along in her pregnancy, and the child she was carrying weighed over two pounds. At that time doctors were not especially sophisticated, for lack of a better term, when it came to killing the baby prior to delivery, so they went ahead with delivery and put the baby in a bucket in the corner of the room. The baby tried to breathe, and tried to cry, and everyone in the room pretended the baby wasn’t there.”

— Ron Paul

279. “Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.”

— Ron Paul

280. “And the irony is that the war purchases are recorded as a positive for economic growth and the GDP. Though the war spending is an economic negative and provides no improvement in the people’s standard of living, the government statisticians brag about an upward blip in the GDP. Besides, these bills are paid for by borrowing and printing money, thus increasing future debt obligations and causing higher prices for the next generation.”

— Ron Paul

281. “What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?”

— Ron Paul

282. “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

283. “Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.”

— Ron Paul

284. “Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.”

— Ron Paul

285. “Rubio’s sudden concern for the humanitarian situation in Venezuela smacks of hypocrisy, as he supported all US sanctions that have made life for Venezuelans miserable.”

— Ron Paul

286. “Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.”

— Ron Paul

287. “This Bush Doctrine stands today and is assumed by President Obama to be legitimate as he carries out a secret drone war worldwide with no congressional input or oversight.”

— Ron Paul

288. “White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.”

— Ron Paul

289. “There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.”

— Ron Paul

290. “Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.”

— Ron Paul

291. “We also hear of internet corporations cooperating readily in mass surveillance and receiving payments for turning over information to the government.”

— Ron Paul

292. “I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we’re fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.”

— Ron Paul

293. “Obama, through Attorney General Eric Holder, rejuvenated the Espionage Act, using it more than any president since Wilson. On seven occasions the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to charge government officials for leaks to the media. It has also used the law to justify seizing emails and phone records of Associated Press and Fox News reporters.”

— Ron Paul

294. “Once you get the government involved in agriculture you’ll have nothing but problems and expenses.”

— Ron Paul

295. “Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.”

— Ron Paul

296. “One thing for sure, Muhammad Ali stood his ground and refused to go thousands of miles from home to kill people who never did him any harm – a heroic stand. For this stand, he, like others, was arrested and faced imprisonment. What the government wants is efficient, sterile killers in immoral wars who can be awarded medals and paraded before cheering audiences as great patriotic defenders of our liberty.”

— Ron Paul

297. “Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth.”

— Ron Paul

298. “Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.”

— Ron Paul

299. “You know, the greatest hoax I think that has been around in many, many years if not hundreds of years has been this hoax on the environment and global warming. You notice they don’t call it global warming anymore. It’s weather control.”

— Ron Paul

300. “Though all dictators endorse the same principle of government aggression to suppress people’s liberty, some dictators are harder to detect than others. A slick neocon can seem virtuous compared to a Hitler, yet still endorse invasion and the slaughter of innocent people.”

— Ron Paul