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And Yet Even Among The Friends Of Liberty, Many People Are Deceived Into Believing That Government Can Make Them Safe From All Harm, Provide Fairly Distributed Economic Security, And Improve Individual Moral Behavior. If The Government Is Granted A Monopoly On The Use Of Force To Achieve These Goals, History Shows That Power Is Always Abused. Every Single Time.

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And Yet Even Among The Friends Of Liberty, Many People Are Deceived Into Believing That Government Can Make Them Safe From All Harm, Provide Fairly Distributed Economic Security, And Improve Individual Moral Behavior. If The Government Is Granted A Monopoly On The Use Of Force To Achieve These Goals, History Shows That Power Is Always Abused. Every Single Time.

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Necessary Change

The Most Basic Principle To Being A Free American Is The Notion That We As Individuals Are Responsible For Our Own Lives And Decisions. We Do Not Have The Right To Rob Our Neighbors To Make Up For Our Mistakes, Neither Does Our Neighbor Have Any Right To Tell Us How To Live, So Long As We Aren’t Infringing On Their Rights. Freedom To Make Bad Decisions Is Inherent In The Freedom To Make Good Ones. If We Are Only Free To Make Good Decisions, We Are Not Really Free.

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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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Even If You Don't Like Guns And Don't Want To Own Them, You Benefit From Those Who Do.

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.

As Bank Customers, We Tend To Believe That We Can Have Both Perfect Security For Our Money, Drawing On It Whenever We Want And Never Expecting It Not To Be There, While Still Earning A Regular Rate Of Return. In A True Free Market, However, There Tends To Be A Tradeoff: You Can Enjoy A Money Warehouse Or You Can Hope For A Return On Your Investment. You Can't Usually Have Both. The Fed, However, By Backing Up This Fractional-reserve System With A Promise Of Endless Bailouts And Money Creation, Attempts To Keep The Illusion Going.

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Have You Noticed The Debt Is Exploding? And It's Not All Because Of Medicare.

Libertarians Are Incapable Of Being A Racist, Because Racism Is A Collectivist Idea.

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I Lean Toward A Flat Tax. But I Want To Make It Real Flat, Like Zero.

Order Was Only Restored In L.a. When It Came Time For The Blacks To Pick Up Their Welfare Checks Three Days After Rioting Began. ... What If The Checks Had Never Arrived? No Doubt The Blacks Would Have Fully Privatized The Welfare State Through Continued Looting. But They Were Paid Off And The Violence Subsided.

It Is A Dangerous Notion That We Need A Government To Protect Us From Ourselves.

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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History Has Shown That The Masses Have Been Quite Receptive To The Promises Of Authoritarians Which Are Rarely If Ever Fulfilled.

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I Do Not Have Much Confidence In The Political System And Never Did. My Goal Has Always Been To Change People's Minds Because As Long As People Demand More Government, They Will Get It.

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Unlike Newt Gingrich And Rick Santorum, I Never Voted To Provide Taxpayer Funding To Planned Parenthood.

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September 11th Does Not Justify Ignoring The Constitution By Creating Broad New Federal Police Powers. The Rule Of Law Is Worthless If We Ignore It Whenever Crises Occur.

The Law Cannot Make A Wicked Person Virtuous…god’s Grace Alone Can Accomplish Such A Thing.

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The Fed Has One Power That Is Unique To It Alone: It Enables The Creation Of Money Out Of Thin Air. Sometimes It Makes Vast New Amounts. Sometimes It Makes Lesser Amounts. The Money Takes A Variety Of Forms And Enters The System In Various Ways. And The Fed Does This Through Techniques Such As Open-market Operations, Changing Reserve Ratios, And Manipulating Interest Rates, Operations That All Result In Money Creation.

The Notion Of A Rigid Separation Between Church And State Has No Basis In Either The Text Of The Constitution Or The Writings Of Our Founding Fathers. On The Contrary, Our Founders’ Political Views Were Strongly Informed By Their Religious Beliefs.

Setting A Good Example Is A Far Better Way To Spread Ideals Than Through Force Of Arms.

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If You Give Up On Your Principles I Don’t Think That’s Being Pragmatic... Doing The Wrong Thing, Even Partially, Isn’t Being Practical...if You Have The Right Ideas And Are Forceful Enough...i Think You Can Get The Support You Need.

Our Constitution, Which Was Intended To Limit Government Power And Abuse, Has Failed.

Sexually-transmitted Diseases Is Caused By Sexual Activity And Promiscuity It Spreads Diseases. That's Been Known, You Know, About 400 Or 500 Years, That Somehow These Diseases Are Spread. If Fault Comes With People Because Of Their Personal Behavior But It Isn't To Be Placed On A Burden On Other People, Innocent People, Why Should They Have To Pay For The Consequences?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

I'm Not Sure What Al Gore Did For Peace. I Don't Think He Have Been High On My List For The Nobel Peace Prize.

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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.

To Condemn Free-market Capitalism Because Of Anything Going On Today Makes No Sense. There Is No Evidence That Capitalism Exists Today. We Are Deeply Involved In An Interventionist-planned Economy That Allows Major Benefits To Accrue To The Politically Connected Of Both Political Parties. One May Condemn The Fraud And The Current System, But It Must Be Called By Its Proper Names Keynesian Inflationism, Interventionism, And Corporatism.

Demanding Domestic Security In Times Of War Invites Carelessness In Preserving Civil Liberties And The Right Of Privacy. Frequently The People Are Only Too Anxious For Their Freedoms To Be Sacrificed On The Altar Of Authoritarianism Thought To Be Necessary To Remain Safe And Secure.

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.

It Is Not Democracy To Send In Billions Of Dollars To Push Regime Change Overseas. It Isn't Democracy To Send In The Ngos To Re-write Laws And The Constitution In Places Like Ukraine. It Is None Of Our Business.

Unskilled And Inexperienced Workers Are The Ones Most Often Deprived Of Employment Opportunities By Increases In The Minimum Wage.

It's A Mistake To Think That Poor People Get The Benefit From The Welfare System. It's A Total Fraud. Most Welfare Go To The Rich Of This Country: The Military-industrial Complex, The Bankers, The Foreign Dictators, It's Totally Out Of Control.

In A Free Society, We Are Supposed To Know The Truth. In A Society Where Truth Becomes Treason, We Are In Big Trouble.

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.

I Am Absolutely Convinced, You Never Have To Give Up Any Of Your Freedoms In Order To Be Secure.

America Was Founded By Men Who Understood That The Threat Of Domestic Tyranny Is As Great As Any Threat From Abroad. If We Want To Be Worthy Of Their Legacy, We Must Resist The Rush Toward Ever-increasing State Control Of Our Society. Otherwise, Our Own Government Will Become A Greater Threat To Our Freedoms Than Any Foreign Terrorist.

The Federal Reserve System Is Nothing More Than Legalized Counterfeit.

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I'm An Imperfect Messenger, But The Message Is Perfect.

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Remember, Politicians Get Votes By Promising Everything To Everyone, Always At The Expense Of Some Other Invisible Taxpayers.

Privacy Is Freedom. Leave Us Alone!

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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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You Don't Have A Right To A House, You Don't Have A Right To A Job, You Don't Have A Right To Medical Care.

The Role Of The Federal Government Is To Protect Our Liberties. That Means They Should Protect Our Religious Liberties To Do What We Want; Our Intellectual Liberty, But It Also Should Protect Our Right To Do To Our Body What We Want, You Know, What We Take Into Our Bodies.

The Ultimate Solution Is Not In The Hands Of The Government. The Solution Falls On Each And Every Individual, With Guidance From Family, Friends And Community. The #1 Responsibility For Each Of Us Is To Change Ourselves With Hope That Others Will Follow. This Is Of Greater Importance Than Working On Changing The Government; That Is Secondary To Promoting A Virtuous Society. If We Can Achieve This, Then The Government Will Change.

I Never Voted To Spend One Penny Of Social Security Money.

The Freedom Message Brings Us Together, It Doesn't Divide Us.

They Ask Me If I'm Going To Quit. I Thought We Were Just Getting Started. We Have A Revolution To Fight, A Country To Change.

It’s Not Part Of Our Constitution To Assume That We Are The World’s Policemen.

If Global Warming Is Because Of Weather Changes - Which A Lot Of People Believe - There's Not Much We Can Do To Change The Weather Pattern.

If You Care About Your Personal Liberty, You'll Be Cautious When You Feel Comfortable, Blame All The Illegal Immigrants For Everything. What You Need To Do Is Attack Their Benefits: No Free Education, No Free Subsidies, No Citizenship, No Birth-right Citizenship.

Rights Mean You Have A Right To Your Life. You Have A Right To Your Liberty, And You Should Have A Right To Keep The Fruits Of Your Labor....i, In A Way, Don’t Like To Use Those Terms: Gay Rights, Women’s Rights, Minority Rights, Religious Rights. There’s Only One Type Of Right. It’s The Right To Your Liberty.

No Matter How Many Pro-freedom Politicians We Elect To Office, The Only Way To Guarantee Constitutional Government Is Through An Educated And Activist Public Devoted To The Ideals Of Liberty.

You Know, Freedom Is A Very Popular Idea, And Young People Love It, And They're Open To Ideas. And They Like Principled Answers To Our Problems.

When You Have War, Whether It's A War Against Drugs, War Against Terrorism, War Overseas, The Mentality Of The People Change And They're More Willing To Sacrifice Their Liberties In Order To Be Safe And Secure.

I Would Say Nobody Is Perfect. I Don't Know All The Answers. I Have Don't Want To Run People's Lives And Run The World And Run The Economy. So, My Qualifications Are A Little Bit Different.

There's Nothing Wrong With Being A Conservative And Coming Up With A Conservative Believe In Foreign Policy Where We Have A Strong National Defense And We Don't Go To War So Carelessly.

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.

By The Way, When I Say Cut Taxes, I Don't Mean Fiddle With The Code. I Mean Abolish The Income Tax And The Irs, And Replace Them With Nothing.

What Else Do We Need To Know About The Political Establishment Than That It Refuses To Discuss The Crimes That Terrify Americans On Grounds That Doing So Is Racist? Why Isn't That True Of Complex Embezzling, Which Is 100 Percent White And Asian?

This Is The Deadening Consensus That Crosses Party Lines, That Dominates Our Major Media, And That Is Strangling The Liberty And Prosperity That Were Once The Birthright Of Americans. Dissenters Who Tell Their Fellow Citizens What Is Really Going On Are Subject To Smear Campaigns That, Like Clockwork, Are Aimed At The Political Heretic. Truth Is Treason In The Empire Of Lies.

Think Of What Happened After 9/11, The Minute Before There Was Any Assessment, There Was Glee In The Administration Because Now We Can Invade Iraq, And So The War Drums Beat.

Government Spending Is Always A “tax” Burden On The American People And Is Never Equally Or Fairly Distributed. The Poor And Low-middle Income Workers Always Suffer The Most From The Deceitful Tax Of Inflation And Borrowing.

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.

When We Give Government The Power To Make Medical Decisions For Us, We, In Essence, Accept That The State Owns Our Bodies.

A Citizen Walking Through The Airport Today Is Bombarded With 1984-style Propaganda Messages That Are Designed To Make Us Fear Some Amorphous Threat And Also Be Suspicious Of Others. The Government Designs These Messages To Make Us Feel Dependent And Heavily Lorded Over In Every Aspect Of Our Lives. These Messages Are Becoming Ever More Pervasive, Hitting Us Even In Grocery Stores When We Are Shopping.

You Know, The Greatest Hoax I Think That Has Been Around In Many, Many Years If Not Hundreds Of Years Has Been This Hoax On The Environment And Global Warming. You Notice They Don't Call It Global Warming Anymore. It's Weather Control.

Jury Verdicts, Basketball Games, And Even Music Are Enough To Set Off Black Rage, It Seems.

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.

Liberty Is Lost Through Complacency And A Subservient Mindset. When We Accept Or Even Welcome Automobile Checkpoints, Random Searches, Mandatory Identification Cards, And Paramilitary Police In Our Streets, We Have Lost A Vital Part Of Our American Heritage. America Was Born Of Protest, Revolution, And Mistrust Of Government. Subservient Societies Neither Maintain Nor Deserve Freedom For Long.

It Would Be Virtually Impossible To Finance Wars Without Taxing The People, And The Welfare System Would Be Limited Because There Wouldn't Be Enough Money In The Bank To Sustain It As It Is, And That Would Help Prices Stay Under Control.

I Take My Marching Orders From The Constitution.

We Need To Make Sure That People Can Save All The Money They Spend On Medical Care By Getting It Back From Their Taxes, By Reducing Their Tax Burden.

If People Are Smokers, Don't They Have To Pay More? Sometimes, You Get Your Insurance Cheaper If You Are A Nonsmoker. So, Let The Markets Sort This Out And Insurance Sort It Out, But Not Having Dictates By The Government Saying Thou, You Must Do This And Your Behavior Doesn't Matter, You Know?

All Rights Are Individual. We Do Not Get Our Rights Because We Belong To A Group. Whether It's Homosexuals, Women, Minorities, It Leads Us Astray. You Don't Get Your Rights Belonging To Your Group. A Group Can't Force Themselves On Anybody Else. So There Should Be No Affirmative Action For Any Group.

I Have Some Help On Tweeting.

But Whether The Resistance Against Government Tyrants Is Non-violent Or Physically Violent, The Effort To Overthrow State Oppression Qualifies As True Patriotism.

You Can't Have A Healthy Economy Without Sound Money, Which Is Why We're On The Verge Of Very Serious Economic Problem.

True Prosperity Can Only Come From A Healthy Economy And Sound Money. That Can Only Be Achieved In A Free Society.

We In The Congress Have A Moral And Constitutional Obligation To Protect The Value Of The Dollar And To Understand Why It Is So Important To The Economy That A Central Bank Not Be Given The Unbelievable Power Of Inflating A Currency At Will And Pretending That It Knows How To Fine-tune An Economy Through This Counterfeit System Of Money.

Cliches About Supporting The Troops Are Designed To Distract From Failed Policies, Policies Promoted By Powerful Special Interests That Benefit From War, Anything To Steer The Discussion Away From The Real Reasons The War In Iraq Will Not End Anytime Soon.

Astonishingly, American Taxpayers Now Will Be Forced To Finance A Multi-billion Dollar Jobs Program In Iraq. Suddenly The War Is About Jobs. We Export Our Manufacturing Jobs To Asia, And Now We Plan To Export Our Welfare Jobs To Iraq, All At The Expense Of The Poor And The Middle Class Here At Home.

When People Become Frightened, They Look For Things Of Real Value. They Will Go To Monetary Metals, Gold And Silver, And They Will Buy Other Things, Such As Buying Property. But No Matter What We Have, Whether We Have Our Gold Coins Or We Have Our Property, If We Have An Authoritarian Government, That Is Our Greatest Threat. So, I Would Like To Think That There Is No Perfect Protection, Other Than Shrinking The Size And Scope And Power Of Government, So That We Can Be Left Alone And Take Care Of Ourselves.

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