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" 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? "
Ron Paul
Take Care
Care
Government
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" 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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Free
" Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare. "
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You
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" 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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" 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
" 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. "
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Group
Someone
Rights
" 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
" You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected. "
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American
You
Individual
" Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. "
Ron Paul
Good Example
Through
Way
" War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. "
Ron Paul
Profit
Those
War
" Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. "
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Violence
Use
Which
" I have some help on tweeting. "
Ron Paul
Help
Tweeting
Some
" When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. "
Ron Paul
Bed
Government
Must
" Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. "
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Aggressive
War
Us
" 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'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade. "
Ron Paul
Like
Flavor
Decade
" I would say that I'm pretty mainstream. "
Ron Paul
Mainstream
Would
Say
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Worse
Used
Trouble
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Suffering
Care
Government
" 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. "
Ron Paul
Tax
Income
Year
" I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him. "
Ron Paul
Talk
Think
Time
" In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself. "
Ron Paul
Time
Everyone
Much
" Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. "
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Government
Wrong
Challenge
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Competition
Government
Wants
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Politicians
Simple
Tax
" 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. "
Ron Paul
End
Just
Take
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Free
Society
Purpose
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Capitalism
Credit
Money
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Men
Support
Sometimes
" Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions. "
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Religions
Great
Wealth
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Money
Taxes
True