Quotes from Ron Paul

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?'

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

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.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

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

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no - I say it is something wrong with the dollar.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that anything that wants to substitute for the American dollar should be permitted.

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.

When the dollar is in trouble, that will be one of the alternatives, and the more Bitcoins are used, the worse it will be for the dollar.

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.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

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.