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During World War Ii, Joseph Stalin Was Once Asked By An American Writer, According To Professor Dean Russell, How He Could Justify Conscripting All The Property Of All The People For Use By The Government To Fight The War. Stalin Answered By Asking Why They Considered It More Immoral And Illogical To Conscript Lifeless Property Than To Conscript Life Itself, As Was Being Done In The United States And All Other Capitalistic Countries. His American Challenger Had No Answer, Because There Was No Answer.

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During World War Ii, Joseph Stalin Was Once Asked By An American Writer, According To Professor Dean Russell, How He Could Justify Conscripting All The Property Of All The People For Use By The Government To Fight The War. Stalin Answered By Asking Why They Considered It More Immoral And Illogical To Conscript Lifeless Property Than To Conscript Life Itself, As Was Being Done In The United States And All Other Capitalistic Countries. His American Challenger Had No Answer, Because There Was No Answer.

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The Reality Is That Our Military Presence On Foreign Soil Is As Offensive To The People That Live There As Armed Chinese Troops Would Be If They Were Stationed In Texas. We Would Not Stand For It Here, But We Have Had A Globe-straddling Empire And A Very Intrusive Foreign Policy For Decades That Incites A Lot Of Hatred And Resentment Toward Us.

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There's A A Right To Privacy For All Individuals And All Who Have Legal Rights - And That Includes The Unborn. As An Obstetrician, If I Cause Any Harm To A Fetus, I Will Be Sued. If Someone Kills Or Harms A Fetus They're Liable In A Court Of Law.

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Nothing Good Can Come From The Federal Reserve. It Is The Biggest Taxer Of Them All. Diluting The Value Of The Dollar By Increasing Its Supply Is A Vicious, Sinister Tax On The Poor And Middle Class.

Mr. Speaker, I Once Again Find Myself Compelled To Vote Against The Annual Budget Resolution For A Very Simple Reason: It Makes Government Bigger.

Article 1 Section 8 Of The Constitution Says Congress Has The Ability To Coin Money And Regulate The Currency And Doesn't Say Anything About Gold Or Silver.

Liberty Has Meaning Only If We Still Believe In It When Terrible Things Happen And A False Government Security Blanket Beckons.

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The Number One Responsibility For Each Of Us Is To Change Ourselves With Hope That Others Will Follow.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come Cannot Be Stopped By Any Army Or Any Force.

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

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I Think It's A Theory... The Theory Of Evolution And I Don't Accept It As A Theory.

Theory Of Evolution

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In Wartime, People Willing To Sacrifice Liberty For Security.

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Our Country's Founders Cherished Liberty, Not Democracy.

Foreign Aid Is Taking Money From The Poor People Of A Rich Country And Giving It To The Rich People Of A Poor Country.

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.

Given The Inefficiencies Of What Dc Laughingly Calls The 'criminal Justice System,' I Think We Can Safely Assume That 95 Percent Of The Black Males In That City Are Semi-criminal Or Entirely Criminal.

There Was A Time When A Willingness To Criticize One's Own Government When It Was Wrong Was The Very Definition Of Patriotism.

American Voters Should Understand That Congress Will Always Find A Way To Spend Every Last Dollar Sent To Washington. Remember, Politicians Get Votes By Promising Everything To Everyone, Always At The Expense Of Some Other Invisible Taxpayers. ...the Federal Government Cannot Maintain A Budget Surplus Any More Than An Alcoholic Can Leave A Fresh Bottle Of Whiskey Untouched In The Cupboard.

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.

Ignorance, As Well As Disapproval For The Natural Restraints Placed On Market Excesses That Capitalism And Sound Markets Impose, Cause Our Present Leaders To Reject Capitalism And Blame It For All The Problems We Face. If This Fallacy Is Not Corrected And Capitalism Is Even Further Undermined, The Prosperity That The Free Market Generates Will Be Destroyed.

I See This Piece Of Legislation As Essentially Being A Declaration Of Virtual War. It Is Giving The President Tremendous Powers To Pursue War Efforts Against A Sovereign Nation. ...i Think It Is Another Example Of A Flawed Foreign Policy That We Have Followed For A Good Many Decades.

Why Does The U.s. Care Which Flag Will Be Hoisted On A Small Piece Of Land Thousands Of Miles Away?

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.

It Is Incumbent On A Great Nation To Remain Confident, If It Wishes To Remain Free. We Need Not Be Ignorant To Real Threats To Our Safety, Against Which We Must Remain Vigilant. We Need Only To Banish To The Ash Heap Of History The Notion That We Ought To Be Ruled By Our Fears And Those Who Use Them To Enhance Their Own Power.

Times Of Tragedy And War Naturally Bring Out Strong Emotions... Sometimes People Are Only Too Anxious To Sacrifice Their Constitutional Liberties During A Crisis, Hoping To Gain Some Measure Of Security. Yet Nothing Would Please Terrorists More Than If We Willingly Gave Up Our Cherished Liberties Because Of Their Actions.

The Moral And Constitutional Obligations Of Our Representatives In Washington Are To Protect Our Liberty, Not Coddle The World, Precipitating No-win Wars, While Bringing Bankruptcy And Economic Turmoil To Our People.

The Government Does Not Need To Know More About What We Are Doing. We Need To Know More About What The Government Is Doing. We Should Be Thankful For Individuals Like Edward Snowden And Glenn Greenwald Who See Injustice Being Carried Out By Their Own Government And Speak Out, Despite The Risk. They Have Done A Great Service To The American People By Exposing The Truth About What Our Government Is Doing In Secret.

We'd Love It If We Could All Just Come Home And Not Worry About The Rest Of The World. But The Problem Is, They Attacked Us On 9/11. We Were Here; They Attacked Us.

They've Been Taught By Too Many That This War Was Necessary When It Isn't.

Big Government Flourishes Under Republicans.

...[the Federal] Government [has No Authority] To Deliver A Service,...and There's No Evidence To Show That Government Has Ever Been Efficient [at] Delivering...service.

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Amend Constitution To Remove Aliens' Birthright Citizenship.

I Want To Be President Mainly For What I Don't Want To Do: I Don't Want To Run Your Life, I Don't Want To Run The Economy, And I Don't Want To Police The World.

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In The American Political Lexicon, 'change' Always Means More Of The Same: More Government, More Looting Of Americans, More Inflation, More Police-state Measures, More Unnecessary War, And More Centralization Of Power.

Sanctions Are Not Diplomacy. They Are A Precursor To War And An Embarrassment To A Country That Pays Lip Service To Free Trade.

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

Israeli Government & The Neocons Want Us To Bomb Iran.

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.

The Federal Government Overrules State Laws Where State Laws Permit Medicinal Marijuana For People Dying Of Cancer. The Federal Government Goes In And Arrests These People, Put Them In Prison With Mandatory, Sometimes Life Sentences. This War On Drugs Is Totally Out Of Control. If You Want To Regulate Cigarettes And Alcohol And Drugs, It Should Be At The State Level.

I'm All For Raw Milk. I Think You Should Make Your Own Choice On Whether You Drink Raw Milk Or Not.

Spain Has Been Massively Diverting Capital From The Private Sector Into Politically Favored Environmental Projects For The Better Part Of A Decade...every Green Job Created, Eliminated 2.2 Real Jobs And Cost Around $800,000 Each!

War Is Never Economically Beneficial Except For Those In Position To Profit From War Expenditures.

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.

If Somebody's In Prison For Non-violence, Drug Usage, And Never Committed A Hard Crime, They Should Be Pardoned And Let Out.

Today’s Events Are Reminiscent Of The Old Testament Story Of How The Israelites Demanded A King Over God’s Objection. They Believed That A King Would Give Them Peace And Security. The Results Proved Otherwise.

Freedom Is Not Defined By Safety. Freedom Is Defined By The Ability Of Citizens To Live Without Government Interference. Government Cannot Create A World Without Risks, Nor Would We Really Wish To Live In Such A Fictional Place. Only A Totalitarian Society Would Even Claim Absolute Safety As A Worthy Ideal, Because It Would Require Total State Control Over Its Citizens’ Lives. Liberty Has Meaning Only If We Still Believe In It When Terrible Things Happen And A False Government Security Blanket Beckons.

We Should Respect Each Other As Rational Beings By Trying To Achieve Our Goals Through Reason And Persuasion Rather Than Threats And Coercion.

If Iran Invaded Israel, It's Up To Congress To Declare War.

Racism Is Simply An Ugly Form Of Collectivism, The Mindset That Views Humans Strictly As Members Of Groups Rather Than Individuals.

I Have Come To One Firm Conviction After These Many Years Of Trying To Figure Out The Plain Truth Of Things. The Best Chance For Achieving Peace And Prosperity, For The Maximum Number Of People Worldwide, Is To Pursue The Cause Of Liberty. If You Find This To Be A Worthwhile Message, Spread It Throughout The Land.

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

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

America Was Born Of Protest, Revolution, And Mistrust Of Government. Subservient Societies Neither Maintain Nor Deserve Freedom For Long.

Capitalism Should Not Be Condemned, Since We Haven't Had Capitalism.

Deficit Spending

We Need A Smaller And Elite Military, As [donald]rumsfeld Said - And Also A Smaller And Elite Foreign Policy.

American Voters Should Understand That Congress Will Always Find A Way To Spend Every Last Dollar Sent To Washington.

American Voters

During The Last Campaign I Knew What Was Happening. You Know, They Mocked Me For My Foreign Policy And They Laughed At My Monetary Policy. No More. No More.

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

The Concept Of Equal Pay For Equal Work Is Not Only An Impossible Task, It Can Only Be Accomplished With The Total Rejection Of The Idea Of The Voluntary Contract... The Idea That A Businessman Must Hire Anyone And Is Prevented From Firing Anyone For Any Reason He Chooses, And In The Name Of Rights, Is A Clear Indication That The Basic Concept Of A Free Society Has Been Lost.

[political] Conventions Lend Themselves To Pandering, As Few Politicians Can Resist The Temptation To Tell A National Television Audience How Well They Will Run The Country If Elected. The Problem Is That Government Is Not Supposed To Run The Country - We're Supposed To Be Free.

Without Precise Meanings Behind Words, Politicians And Elites Can Obscure Reality And Condition People To Reflexively Associate Certain Words With Positive Or Negative Perceptions. In Other Words, Unpleasant Facts Can Be Hidden Behind Purposely Meaningless Language.

Prices Are Going Up. Unemployment Is Continue To Go Up. And We Have Not Had The Necessary Correction For The Financial Bubble Created By Our Federal Reserve System.

Federal Reserve

Ideas Are Very Important To The Shaping Of Society. In Fact, They Are More Powerful Than Bombings Or Armies Or Guns. And This Is Because Ideas Are Capable Of Spreading Without Limit. They Are Behind All The Choices We Make. They Can Transform The World In A Way That Governments And Armies Cannot. Fighting For Liberty With Ideas Makes More Sense To Me Than Fighting With Guns Or Politics Or Political Power. With Ideas, We Can Make Real Change That Lasts.

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.

The Only Thing We Should Prohibit Is Violence.

The Freer The Market Is And The More Respect You Have For Private Property, The Better The Environment Is Protected.

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.

You Wanna Get Rid Of Drug Crime In This Country? Fine, Let's Just Get Rid Of All The Drug Laws.

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.

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.

World Government

The Fourth Amendment Is Clear; We Should Be Secure In Our Persons, Houses, Papers, And Effects, And All Warrants Must Have Probable Cause. Today The Government Operates Largely In Secret, While Seeking To Know Everything About Our Private Lives - Without Probable Cause And Without A Warrant.

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.

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

If Two Parties With Two Sets Of Bad Ideas Cooperate, The Result Is Not Good Policy, But Policy That Is Extremely Bad. What We Really Need Are Correct Economic And Politcal Ideas, Regardless Of The Party That Pushes Them.

There Is But One Special Interest That We Should Be Working For, And That Would Solve Just About All Of Our Problems, And That Is Our Liberty.

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?

Banning Guns Because Of Their Misuse Is Like Banning The First Amendment Because One Might Libel Or Slander.

All Branches Of Our Government Today Are Controlled By Individuals Who Use Their Power To Undermine Liberty And Enhance The Welfare/warfare State-and Frequently Their Own Wealth And Power.

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?

Liberty Built Civilization. It Can Rebuild Civilization.

The Boston Bombing Provided The Opportunity For The Government To Turn What Should Have Been A Police Investigation Into A Military-style Occupation Of An American City. This Unprecedented Move Should Frighten Us As Much Or More Than The Attack Itself.

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.

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.

The Cost In Terms Of Liberties Lost And The Unnecessary Exposure To Terrorism Are Difficult To Determine, But In Time It Will Become Apparent To All Of Us That Foreign Interventionism Is Of No Benefit To American Citizens, But Is Instead A Threat To Our Liberties.

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