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Submitted
by Jim Quinn of
The Burning
Platform
THOSE IN POWER
FEAR RON PAUL AND HIS MESSAGE OF LIBERTY,
FREEDOM, AND RESPONSIBILITY. THE QUOTES
BELOW ARE THE TRUE REFLECTION OF THE MAN
AND HIS IDEAS.
IDEAS CAN CHANGE
THE WORLD.
DO YOUR PART TO
FIGHT THE MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN BEING
WAGED BY THE CORPORATE MEDIA AND THEIR
POLITICAL HACKS BY SENDING THIS LIST OF
QUOTES TO EVERYONE IN YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
BOOK.
Quotes Of The Day - Ron Paul
Edition
“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,
Liberty Defined: The 50 Urgent
Issues That Affect Our
Freedom
“Under the United States
Constitution, the federal government has
no authority to hold states “accountable”
for their education performance…In the
free society envisioned by the founders,
schools are held accountable to parents,
not federal bureaucrats.”
Ron
Paul
“I’m convinced that you
never have to give up liberties to be
safe. I think you’re less safe when you
give up your liberties.”
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Ron
Paul
“Freedom is not
defined by safety. Freedom is defined by
the ability of citizens to live without
government interference. Government
cannot create a world without risks, nor
would we really wish to live in such a
fictional place. Only a totalitarian
society would even claim absolute safety
as a worthy ideal, because it would
require total state control over its
citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only
if we still believe in it when terrible
things happen and a false government
security blanket beckons.”
-
Ron Paul
“Truth is treason in
the empire of lies.”
-
Ron Paul,
The Revolution: A
Manifesto
“Mr. Speaker, I once again find
myself compelled to vote against the
annual budget resolution for a very
simple reason: it makes government
bigger.”
-
Ron
Paul
“The most basic
principle to being a free American is the
notion that we as individuals are
responsible for our own lives and
decisions. We do not have the right to
rob our neighbors to make up for our
mistakes, neither does our neighbor have
any right to tell us how to live, so long
as we aren’t infringing on their rights.
Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent
in the freedom to make good ones. If we
are only free to make good decisions, we
are not really free.”
-
Ron Paul
“Liberty is lost
through complacency and a subservient
mindset. When we accept or even welcome
automobile checkpoints, random searches,
mandatory identification cards, and
paramilitary police in our streets, we
have lost a vital part of our American
heritage. America was born of protest,
revolution, and mistrust of government.
Subservient societies neither maintain
nor deserve freedom for long.”
-
Ron Paul
“Failure of government
programs prompts more determined effort,
while the loss of liberty is ignored or
rationalized away…whether is it is the
war on poverty, drugs, terrorism…or the
current Hitler of the day, an appeal to
patriotism is used to convince the people
that a little sacrifice of liberty, here
or there, is a small price to pay…The
results, though, are frightening and will
soon become even more so.”
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Ron Paul
“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.”
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Ron Paul
“A system of capitalism
presumes sound money, not fiat money
manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism
cherishes voluntary contracts and
interest rates that are determined by
savings, not credit creation by a central
bank.”
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Ron Paul
“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.”
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Ron Paul
“The original American
patriots were those individuals brave
enough to resist with force the
oppressive power of King
George…Patriotism is more closely linked
to dissent than it is to conformity and a
blind desire for safety and
security.”
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Ron Paul
“As many frustrated
Americans who have joined the Tea Party
realize, we cannot stand against big
government at home while supporting it
abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal
responsibility while spending trillions
on occupying and bullying the rest of the
world. We cannot talk about the budget
deficit and spiraling domestic spending
without looking at the costs of
maintaining an American empire of more
than 700 military bases in more than 120
foreign countries. We cannot pat
ourselves on the back for cutting a few
thousand dollars from a nature preserve
or an inner-city swimming pool at home
while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon
budget that nearly equals those of the
rest of the world combined.”
-
Ron Paul
“It is no coincidence
that the century of total war coincided
with the century of central
banking.”
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Ron Paul,
End the Fed
“A
citizen walking through the airport today
is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda
messages that are designed to make us
fear some amorphous threat and also be
suspicious of others. The government
designs these messages to make us feel
dependent and heavily lorded over in
every aspect of our lives. These messages
are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting
us even in grocery stores when we are
shopping.”
-
Ron
Paul,
Liberty
Defined: The 50 Urgent Issues That Affect
Our
Freedom
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