Quotes from Ron Paul

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

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

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

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.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.