Ron Paul Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.”

“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.”

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

“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?'”

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

“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?”