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" 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
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" You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble. "
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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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" When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. "
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" 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. "
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" I would say that I'm pretty mainstream. "
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Would
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" 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?' "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Simple
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" Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare. "
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You
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" I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like. "
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Your
Drink
Like
" 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
" Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened. "
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Believe
Rejection
Step
" 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
" Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us? "
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Upset
Wonder
Golden
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Reflection
I Am
People
" 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
" We spend too much, we borrow too much, and we distort the markets. The bigger the distortions have lasted, the bigger the bust will be. "
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Will
Too Much
Borrow
" I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea. "
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Home
Back
Think
" 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. "
Ron Paul
Group
Someone
Rights
" 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. "
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Competition
Government
Wants
" To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution. "
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Good
Me
Our
" 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
" Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. "
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Government
Wrong
Challenge
" 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
" Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. "
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Violence
Use
Which
" 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
Man
Free
" Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. "
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Think
Up
Space
" War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. "
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Profit
Those
War
" 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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Capitalism
Credit
Money
" 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. "
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