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• No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

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  Freedom, Acceptance, Rights

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  Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

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  Country, Rich Countries, Giving

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.342, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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  Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

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  Lying, Historical, Empires

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, April 30, 2008.

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• One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

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  Father, Government, Political

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  I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

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  Office, Liberty, Hills

  "The Draft: Just Say No" by Ron Paul, original.antiwar.com. February 17, 2009.

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  The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

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  Country, Mean, Responsibility

  "The Patriotism Smear" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. May 24, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Believe, Government, Safety

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• It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

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  Government, Needs, Dangerous

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• In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

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  Trouble, Truth Is, Bigs

  "Ron Paul stands up for Assange" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. December 03, 2010.

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• Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

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  Income, World, Taxes

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• If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

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  Country, School, Gun

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• 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.

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  Father, Real, Democracy

  "Democracy Isn’t Freedom" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. February 7, 2005.

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• The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

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  People, Moral, Justified

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

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  War, Banking, Coincidence

  Chris Rossini, Ron Paul (2014). “Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When you destroy a currency by creating money out of thin air to pay the bills, the value of the dollar goes down, and people get hit with a higher cost of living. It's the middle class that's being wiped out. It is most evil of all taxes.

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  Cost Of Living, Air, Class

  Ron Paul at GOP primary debate at the Maytag Auditorium in Johnston, Iowa, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2007.

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• We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.

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  Zero, Numbers, Government

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• If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

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  Running, Strong, Hard Work

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• Don't steal - the government hates competition!

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  Hate, Government, Competition

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• 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.

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  Weather, Freedom Of Speech, Firsts

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• Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

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  Government, Giving, Challenges

  Television interview, 1987.

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

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  Money, War, Historical

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

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• The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

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  Money, Peace, War

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.60, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

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  Government, Bottles, Whiskey

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• Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

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  Loyalty, Running, Real

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

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  Peace, War, I Hate You

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