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Ron Paul
: Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. [98]
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Ron Paul quote-Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. [98] ...
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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
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While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be, liberty.
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Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.
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I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. I believe in liberty, equality and love.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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One must remember that the factors that bring about peace and harmony in any country are many and not only confined to the word democracy.
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John Stossel: Your party created a prescription drug program, you voted against it. Don't elderly people need these drugs? Ron Paul: Yeah, that's why I voted against it, because these government programs failed to work. A lot of elderly were, and still are furious over that program, because it's so complex and difficult. John Stossel: But a lot of people like it, hey, I'm getting my drugs paid for, they're free. Ron Paul: You know who else likes it? The drug companies. They spent quite a few millions of dollars, they did the highest lobbying, the profiteers were the ones who really pushed that program. But the assumption shouldn't be made that if you didn't have it, people wouldn't get their drugs. The market is designed to lower prices, not raise prices.
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Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
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At the night of the debate, when I was interrupted, the issue then was said to be that, what I've said, is that some way or another I'm blaming the victims. Which is preposterous. It's sort of like taking somebody who's been murdered or raped, and saying, well, let's find out who it was and what the motives were, which everybody does in crime, it's normal and natural, to say that he's blaming the rape victim, or the murder victim. It couldn't be further from the truth, and an individual like myself and the many many others who have taken this position, that we blame America, or Americans. I'm an American, you're all Americans, and to say that there's a blame placed on you for what that has happened, not these murderers who came in and killed us, is ridiculous. And the whole notion that our foreign policy has nothing to do with it, and Giuliani has never heard this, is unbelievable. It's sort of like saying, a country could be under attack for year after year after year, with sanctions, and hundreds of thousands of people dying, and, oh, they don't care, they haven't even thought about it.
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
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Ron Paul: ...a few years back, in the 1980s, in our efforts to bring peace and democracy to the world we assisted the freedom fighters of Afghanistan, and in our infinite wisdom we gave money, technology and training to Bin Laden, and now, this very year, we have declared that Bin Laden was responsible for the bombing in Africa. So what is our response, because we allow our President to pursue war too easily? What was the President's response? Some even say that it might have been for other reasons than for national security reasons. So he goes off and bombs Afghanistan, and he goes off and bombs Sudan, and now the record shows that very likely the pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was precisely that, a pharmaceutical plant... As my colleagues know, at the end of this bill I think we get a hint as to why we do not go to Rwanda for humanitarian reasons... I think it has something to do with money, and I think it has something to do with oil... they are asking to set up and check into the funds that Saddam Hussein owes to the west. Who is owed? They do not owe me any money. But I will bet my colleagues there is a lot of banks in New York who are owed a lot of money, and this is one of the goals... Dana Rohrabacher: This resolution is exactly the right formula... Support democracy. Oppose tyranny. Oppose aggression and repression... We should strengthen the victims so they can defend themselves. These things are totally consistent with America's philosophy, and it is a pragmatic approach as well... Our support for the Mujahedin collapsed the Soviet Union. Yes, there was a price to pay, because after the Soviet Union collapsed, we walked away, and we did not support those elements in the Mujahedin who were somewhat in favor of the freedom and western values. With those people who oppose this effort of pro democracy foreign policy, a pro freedom foreign policy rather than isolation foreign policy, they would have had us stay out of that war in Afghanistan. They would never have had us confronting Soviet aggression in different parts of the world... Mr. Speaker, the gentleman does not think it is proper for us to offer those people who are struggling for freedoms in Iraq against their dictatorship a helping hand? Ron Paul: Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I think it would be absolutely proper to do that, as long as it came out of the gentleman's wallet and we did not extract it from somebody in this country, a taxpayer at the point of a gun and say, look, bin Laden is a great guy. I want more of your money. That is what we did in the 1980s. That is what the Congress did. They went to the taxpayers, they put a gun to their head, and said, you pay up, because we think bin Laden is a freedom fighter. Dana Rohrabacher: Well, if the gentleman will further yield, it was just not handled correctly. Ron Paul: Mr. Speaker, again reclaiming my time, the policy is flawed. The policy is flawed.
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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. 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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Neil Cavuto: ...your campaign has received a $500 campaign donation from a white supremacist in West Palm Beach. And your campaign had indicated you have no intention to return it. What are you going to do with that? Ron Paul: It is probably already spent. Why give it back to him and use it for bad purposes? Neil Cavuto: ...this Don Black who made the donation, and who ran a site called "Stormfront, White Pride Worldwide," now that you know it, now that you're familiar after the fact, you still would not return it? Ron Paul: Well, if I spent his money and I took the money that maybe you might have sent to me and donate it back to him, that does not make any sense to me. Why should I give him money to promote his cause? Neil Cavuto: ...Hillary Clinton has had to do this, a number of other candidates have had to do this. Do you think that just is a bad practice? Ron Paul: I think it is pandering. I think it is playing the political correctness... What about the people who get donations, want to get special interests from the military industrial complex? They put in — they raise, bundle their money, and send millions of dollars in there. And they want to rob the taxpayers. That is the real evil ... that buys influence in government. And this is, to me, the corruption that should be corrected... you are missing the whole boat — the whole boat, because it is the immorality of government, it's the special interests in government, it's fighting illegal wars... Neil Cavuto: All right. Ron Paul: ...and financing, and taxing the people, destroying the people through inflation, and undermining this prosperity of the country.
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Liberty once again must become more important to us than the desire for security and material comfort. Personal safety and economic prosperity can only come as the consequence of liberty. They cannot be provided by an authoritarian government... The foundation for a police state has been put in place, and it's urgent we mobilize resistance before it's too late... Central planning is intellectually bankrupt – and it has bankrupted our country and undermined our moral principles. Respect for individual liberty and dignity is the only answer to government force, force that serves the politically and economically powerful. Our planners and rulers are not geniuses, but rather demagogues and would-be dictators -- always performing their tasks with a cover of humanitarian rhetoric... The collapse of the Soviet system came swiftly and dramatically, without a bloody conflict... It came as no surprise, however, to the devotees of freedom who have understood for decades that socialism was doomed to fail... And so too will the welfare/warfare state fail... A free society is based on the key principle that the government, the president, the Congress, the courts, and the bureaucrats are incapable of knowing what is best for each and every one of us... A government as a referee is proper, but a government that uses arbitrary force to direct every aspect of society threatens freedom... The time has come for a modern approach to achieving those values that all civilized societies seek. Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness... The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy. If I am to be your president, these are the goals I would seek. I reject the notion that we need a president to run our lives, plan the economy, or police the world... It is much more important to protect individual liberty and privacy than to make government even more secretive and powerful.
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Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. [98]
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The American people have been offered two lousy choices. One, which is corporatism, a fascist type of approach, or, socialism. We deliver a lot of services in this country through the free market, and when you do it through the free market prices go down. But in medicine, prices go up. Technology doesn't help the cost, it goes up instead of down. But if you look at almost all of our industries that are much freer, technology lowers the prices. Just think of how the price of cell phones goes down. Poor people have cell phones, and televisions, and computers. Prices all go down. But in medicine, they go up, and there's a reason for that, that's because the government is involved with it... I do [think that prices will go down without government involvement], but probably a lot more than what you're thinking about, because you have to have competition in the delivery of care. For instance, if you have a sore throat and you have to come see me, you have to wait in the waiting room, and then get checked, and then get a prescription, and it ends up costing you $100. If you had true competition, you should be able to go to a nurse, who could for 1/10 the cost very rapidly do it, and let her give you a prescription for penicillin. See, the doctors and the medical profession have monopolized the system through licensing. And that's not an accident, because they like the idea that you have to go see the physician and pay this huge price. And patients can sort this out, they're not going to go to a nurse if they need brain surgery...
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=103259&author=Ron Paul"e=Ron+Paul%3A+...a+few+years+back%2C+in+the+1980s%2C+in+our+efforts+to+bring+peace+and+democracy+to+the+world+we+assisted+the+freedom+fighters+of+Afghanistan%2C+and+in+our+infinite+wisdom+we+gave+money%2C+technology+and+training+to+Bin+Laden%2C+and+now%2C+this+very+year%2C+we+have+declared+that+Bin+Laden+was+responsible+for+the+bombing+in+Africa.+So+what+is+our+response%2C+because+we+allow+our+President+to+pursue+war+too+easily%3F+What+was+the+President%27s+response%3F+Some+even+say+that+it+might+have+been+for+other+reasons+than+for+national+security+reasons.+So+he+goes+off+and+bombs+Afghanistan%2C+and+he+goes+off+and+bombs+Sudan%2C+and+now+the+record+shows+that+very+likely+the+pharmaceutical+plant+in+Sudan+was+precisely+that%2C+a+pharmaceutical+plant...+As+my+colleagues+know%2C+at+the+end+of+this+bill+I+think+we+get+a+hint+as+to+why+we+do+not+go+to+Rwanda+for+humanitarian+reasons...+I+think+it+has+something+to+do+with+money%2C+and+I+think+it+has+something+to+do+with+oil...+they+are+asking+to+set+up+and+check+into+the+funds+that+Saddam+Hussein+owes+to+the+west.+Who+is+owed%3F+They+do+not+owe+me+any+money.+But+I+will+bet+my+colleagues+there+is+a+lot+of+banks+in+New+York+who+are+owed+a+lot+of+money%2C+and+this+is+one+of+the+goals...%0ADana+Rohrabacher%3A+This+resolution+is+exactly+the+right+formula...+Support+democracy.+Oppose+tyranny.+Oppose+aggression+and+repression...+We+should+strengthen+the+victims+so+they+can+defend+themselves.+These+things+are+totally+consistent+with+America%27s+philosophy%2C+and+it+is+a+pragmatic+approach+as+well...+Our+support+for+the+Mujahedin+collapsed+the+Soviet+Union.+Yes%2C+there+was+a+price+to+pay%2C+because+after+the+Soviet+Union+collapsed%2C+we+walked+away%2C+and+we+did+not+support+those+elements+in+the+Mujahedin+who+were+somewhat+in+favor+of+the+freedom+and+western+values.+With+those+people+who+oppose+this+effort+of+pro+democracy+foreign+policy%2C+a+pro+freedom+foreign+policy+rather+than+isolation+foreign+policy%2C+they+would+have+had+us+stay+out+of+that+war+in+Afghanistan.+They+would+never+have+had+us+confronting+Soviet+aggression+in+different+parts+of+the+world...+Mr.+Speaker%2C+the+gentleman+does+not+think+it+is+proper+for+us+to+offer+those+people+who+are+struggling+for+freedoms+in+Iraq+against+their+dictatorship+a+helping+hand%3F%0ARon+Paul%3A+Mr.+Speaker%2C+reclaiming+my+time%2C+I+think+it+would+be+absolutely+proper+to+do+that%2C+as+long+as+it+came+out+of+the+gentleman%27s+wallet+and+we+did+not+extract+it+from+somebody+in+this+country%2C+a+taxpayer+at+the+point+of+a+gun+and+say%2C+look%2C+bin+Laden+is+a+great+guy.+I+want+more+of+your+money.+That+is+what+we+did+in+the+1980s.+That+is+what+the+Congress+did.+They+went+to+the+taxpayers%2C+they+put+a+gun+to+their+head%2C+and+said%2C+you+pay+up%2C+because+we+think+bin+Laden+is+a+freedom+fighter.%0ADana+Rohrabacher%3A+Well%2C+if+the+gentleman+will+further+yield%2C+it+was+just+not+handled+correctly.%0ARon+Paul%3A+Mr.+Speaker%2C+again+reclaiming+my+time%2C+the+policy+is+flawed.+The+policy+is+flawed.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14785%2FRon_Paul_64x64.png){kind=link}
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=103305&author=Ron Paul"e=Neil+Cavuto%3A+...your+campaign+has+received+a+%24500+campaign+donation+from+a+white+supremacist+in+West+Palm+Beach.+And+your+campaign+had+indicated+you+have+no+intention+to+return+it.+What+are+you+going+to+do+with+that%3F%0ARon+Paul%3A+It+is+probably+already+spent.+Why+give+it+back+to+him+and+use+it+for+bad+purposes%3F%0ANeil+Cavuto%3A+...this+Don+Black+who+made+the+donation%2C+and+who+ran+a+site+called+%22Stormfront%2C+White+Pride+Worldwide%2C%22+now+that+you+know+it%2C+now+that+you%27re+familiar+after+the+fact%2C+you+still+would+not+return+it%3F%0ARon+Paul%3A+Well%2C+if+I+spent+his+money+and+I+took+the+money+that+maybe+you+might+have+sent+to+me+and+donate+it+back+to+him%2C+that+does+not+make+any+sense+to+me.+Why+should+I+give+him+money+to+promote+his+cause%3F%0ANeil+Cavuto%3A+...Hillary+Clinton+has+had+to+do+this%2C+a+number+of+other+candidates+have+had+to+do+this.+Do+you+think+that+just+is+a+bad+practice%3F%0ARon+Paul%3A+I+think+it+is+pandering.+I+think+it+is+playing+the+political+correctness...+What+about+the+people+who+get+donations%2C+want+to+get+special+interests+from+the+military+industrial+complex%3F+They+put+in+%E2%80%94+they+raise%2C+bundle+their+money%2C+and+send+millions+of+dollars+in+there.+And+they+want+to+rob+the+taxpayers.+That+is+the+real+evil+...+that+buys+influence+in+government.+And+this+is%2C+to+me%2C+the+corruption+that+should+be+corrected...+you+are+missing+the+whole+boat+%E2%80%94+the+whole+boat%2C+because+it+is+the+immorality+of+government%2C+it%27s+the+special+interests+in+government%2C+it%27s+fighting+illegal+wars...%0ANeil+Cavuto%3A+All+right.%0ARon+Paul%3A+...and+financing%2C+and+taxing+the+people%2C+destroying+the+people+through+inflation%2C+and+undermining+this+prosperity+of+the+country.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14785%2FRon_Paul_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=103247&author=Ron Paul"e=Liberty+once+again+must+become+more+important+to+us+than+the+desire+for+security+and+material+comfort.+Personal+safety+and+economic+prosperity+can+only+come+as+the+consequence+of+liberty.+They+cannot+be+provided+by+an+authoritarian+government...+The+foundation+for+a+police+state+has+been+put+in+place%2C+and+it%27s+urgent+we+mobilize+resistance+before+it%27s+too+late...+Central+planning+is+intellectually+bankrupt+%E2%80%93+and+it+has+bankrupted+our+country+and+undermined+our+moral+principles.+Respect+for+individual+liberty+and+dignity+is+the+only+answer+to+government+force%2C+force+that+serves+the+politically+and+economically+powerful.+Our+planners+and+rulers+are+not+geniuses%2C+but+rather+demagogues+and+would-be+dictators+--+always+performing+their+tasks+with+a+cover+of+humanitarian+rhetoric...+The+collapse+of+the+Soviet+system+came+swiftly+and+dramatically%2C+without+a+bloody+conflict...+It+came+as+no+surprise%2C+however%2C+to+the+devotees+of+freedom+who+have+understood+for+decades+that+socialism+was+doomed+to+fail...+And+so+too+will+the+welfare%2Fwarfare+state+fail...+A+free+society+is+based+on+the+key+principle+that+the+government%2C+the+president%2C+the+Congress%2C+the+courts%2C+and+the+bureaucrats+are+incapable+of+knowing+what+is+best+for+each+and+every+one+of+us...+A+government+as+a+referee+is+proper%2C+but+a+government+that+uses+arbitrary+force+to+direct+every+aspect+of+society+threatens+freedom...+The+time+has+come+for+a+modern+approach+to+achieving+those+values+that+all+civilized+societies+seek.+Only+in+a+free+society+do+individuals+have+the+best+chance+to+seek+virtue%2C+strive+for+excellence%2C+improve+their+economic+well-being%2C+and+achieve+personal+happiness...+The+worthy+goals+of+civilization+can+only+be+achieved+by+freedom+loving+individuals.+When+government+uses+force%2C+liberty+is+sacrificed+and+the+goals+are+lost.+It+is+freedom+that+is+the+source+of+all+creative+energy.+If+I+am+to+be+your+president%2C+these+are+the+goals+I+would+seek.+I+reject+the+notion+that+we+need+a+president+to+run+our+lives%2C+plan+the+economy%2C+or+police+the+world...+It+is+much+more+important+to+protect+individual+liberty+and+privacy+than+to+make+government+even+more+secretive+and+powerful.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14785%2FRon_Paul_64x64.png){kind=link}
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