"Once a nation becomes a democracy, the whole purpose of government changes. Instead of the government's goal being that of guaranteeing liberty, equal justice, private property, and voluntary exchange, the government embarks on the impossible task of achieving economic equality, micromanaging the economy, and protecting citizens from themselves and all their activities. The destruction of the wealth-building process, which is inherent in a free society, is never anticipated. Once it's realized that it has been undermined, it is too late to easily reverse the attacks against limited government and personal liberty."
Ron Paul

"Today's political process is nothing more than a street fight between various groups seeking to vote themselves other people's money."
Congressman Ron Paul

"A government with unrestrained powers is properly characterized as tyrannical."
Congressman Ron Paul

"Repeal of legal tender laws will help restore constitutional government and protect the people's right to a medium of exchange chosen by the market, thereby protecting their current purchasing power as well as their pensions, savings, and other promises of future payment. Because honest money serves the needs of ordinary people, instead of fiat irredeemable paper-ticket electronic money that improperly transfers the wealth of society to a small specially privileged financial elite along with other special interests, I urge my colleagues to cosponsor the Honest Money Act."
Congressman Ron Paul

"...[I]n imperial Washington, states have become nothing more than glorified counties."
Ron Paul

"Let there be no doubt: the business cycle, the stagflation, the recessions, the depressions, and the inflations are not a result of capitalism and sound money, but rather are a direct result of paper money and a central bank that is incapable of managing it."
Congressman Ron Paul, Texas

"Real economic growth won't return until confidence in the entire system is restored. And that is impossible as long as it depends on the politicians not spending too much money and the Federal Reserve limiting its propensity to inflate our way to prosperity. Only sound money and limited government can do that."
Congressman Ron Paul, Texas

"I believe in the federalist system, which means when you have difficult problems to sort out, they should do that at the local level. The one thing that is hard for a lot of conservatives to accept is that if you legalize freedom, you also legalize the right of people to do dumb things and to offend people. And as long as those dumb things only hurt oneself, the constitutionalist doesn't object."
Rep. Ron Paul

"[G]un control often serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control.  Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."
Ron Paul

"Utopian dreams, fulfilled by autocratic means, hardly qualify as being morally justifiable."
Ron Paul

"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man!"
Ron Paul

"A government that is willing to enslave a portion of its people to fight an unjust war can never be trusted to protect the liberties of its own citizens."
Ron Paul

"The class war tactic highlights what the Left does best: divide Americans into groups.  Collectivists see all issues of wealth and taxation as a zero-sum game played between competing groups.  If one group gets a tax break, other groups must be rallied against it -- even if such a cut would ultimately benefit them. Yet the class warriors forget that American wealth is not static, but rather very dynamic.  Poor people become rich, and rich people lose all of their money.  In fact, at no time in American history have more of the nation's wealthy earned rather than inherited their money.  Rich family dynasties are increasingly rare, and are quickly destroyed by unproductive spendthrift generations.  So when the Left attacks the rich, they're attacking a fluid group that many poor Americans hope to join someday by moving up in life. Upward mobility is possible only in a free-market capitalist system, whereas collectivism dooms the poor to remain exactly where they are.  I'm in favor of cutting everybody's taxes -- rich, poor, and otherwise.  Whether a tax cut reduces a single mother's payroll taxes by forty dollars a month, or allows a wealthy business owner to save millions in capital gains, the net effect is beneficial.  Both either spend, save, or invest the extra dollars, which helps all of us infinitely more than if those dollars were sent to the black hole known as the federal Treasury.  The single mother desperately needs those extra dollars, and that's why we should reduce or eliminate her payroll taxes.  As for the wealthy business owner and whether he 'needs' the extra dollars, I'll simply relate the old adage of the man who said 'I've never had my paycheck signed by a poor man'."
Ron Paul

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