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" Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. "
Ron Paul
Capitalism
Should
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" 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. "
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" Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it. "
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" Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. "
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" I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. "
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" 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. "
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Government
" Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. "
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Risk
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" 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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" Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces. "
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Pieces
Years
Freedom
" I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care. "
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Suffering
Care
Government
" Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. "
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Government
Wrong
Challenge
" Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them? "
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Take Care
Care
Government
" Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. "
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End
Just
Take
" How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. "
Ron Paul
Constitution
Election
Humble
" You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble. "
Ron Paul
Quit
Want
See
" You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected. "
Ron Paul
American
You
Individual
" 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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Work
Strong
Run
" War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. "
Ron Paul
Profit
Those
War
" 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. "
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Politicians
Simple
Tax
" Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. "
Ron Paul
Government
Think
Up
" Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. "
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Democracy
Liberty
Founders
" 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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Choices
Government
Money
" When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class. "
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Class
Currency
Middle
" 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. "
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Tax
Income
Year
" I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. "
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Business
Freedom
Peace
" 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. "
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Reflection
I Am
People
" I have some help on tweeting. "
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Help
Tweeting
Some
" Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare. "
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Noticed
You
Because
" There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. "
Ron Paul
Constitution
Enemy
Liberty
" 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. "
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Worse
Used
Trouble
" You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws. "
Ron Paul
Just
You
Fine