Background Image

...

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

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

I Like Mitt Romney

Ron Paul

...

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.

Views: 3

Topic

More From Ron Paul

We Have Depended On Government For So Much For So Long That We As People Have Become Less Vigilant Of Our Liberties. As Long As The Government Provides Largesse For The Majority, The Special Interest Lobbyists Will Succeed In Continuing The Redistribution Of Welfare Programs That Occupies Most Of Congress's Legislative Time.

Welfare Programs

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.

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.

I Think The Policy Makers Like The Idea Of Being The Boss. I Mean People Who Like To Boss Other People Around Like To Go Into Politics So They Can Become The Boss.

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.

I Take My Marching Orders From The Constitution.

If People Won't Spend Any Money, The Government Has This Moral Obligation To Do It.

If We Are Not Even Free Anymore To Decide Something As Basic As What We Wish To Eat Or Drink, How Much Freedom Do We Really Have Left?

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.

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.

But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing. Let Not Those Who Love The Power Of The Welfare/warfare State Label The Dissenters Of Authoritarianism As Unpatriotic Or Uncaring. Patriotism Is More Closely Linked To Dissent Than It Is To Conformity And A Blind Desire For Safety And Security. Understanding The Magnificent Rewards Of A Free Society Makes Us Unbashful In Its Promotion, Fully Realizing That Maximum Wealth Is Created And The Greatest Chance For Peace Comes From A Society Respectful Of Individual Liberty.

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

When One Gets In Bed With Government, One Must Expect The Diseases It Spreads.

The Constant Refrain That Bringing Our Troops Home Would Demonstrate A Lack Of Support For Them Must Be One Of The Most Amazing Distortions Ever Foisted On The American Public.

Unfortunately, The Greater The Humanitarian Outreach, The Greater The Violence Required To Achieve It.

Ideas Are The Only Things That Count, And Politicians Are, For The Most Part, Pretty Much Irrelevant.

Israeli Government & The Neocons Want Us To Bomb Iran.

As An O.b. Doctor Of Thirty Years, And Having Delivered 4,000 Babies, I Can Assure You Life Begins At Conception.

Republican Control Of The Senate = Expanded Neocon Wars In Syria And Iraq. Boots On The Ground Are Coming!

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.

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

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

When The Goal Of Political Action Is No Longer The Defense Of Liberty, No Word Other Than Demagoguery Can Describe The Despicable Nature Of Politics.

Liberty Built Civilization. It Can Rebuild Civilization.

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.

There Is No Reason, In A Free Society, That Farmers Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Raise Hemp. Hemp Is A Good Product.

We Can Achieve Much More In Peace Than We Can Ever Achieve In These Needless, Unconstitutional, Undeclared Wars.

Unconstitutional

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.

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

Let The Revolution Begin.

The Federal Reserve And Congress Have Systematically Taught The American People To Trust The Government And That Caution In Spending Is Harmful To The Economy.

Abortion On Demand Is The Ultimate State Tyranny; The State Simply Declares That Certain Classes Of Human Beings Are Not Persons, And Therefore Not Entitled To The Protection Of The Law. The State Protects The 'right' Of Some People To Kill Others, Just As The Courts Protected The 'property Rights' Of Slave Masters In Their Slaves. Moreover, By This Method The State Achieves A Goal Common To All Totalitarian Regimes: It Sets Us Against Each Other, So That Our Energies Are Spent In The Struggle Between State-created Classes, Rather Than In Freeing All Individuals From The State.

With The Exception Of The Military Industrial Complex, We All Want A More Peaceful World.

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.

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

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

If You Have Ever Been Robbed By A Black Teen-aged Male, You Know How Unbelievably Fleet-footed They Can Be.

The Most Basic Principle To Being A Free American Is The Notion That We As Individuals Are Responsible For Our Own Lives And Decisions

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.

Everyone On The Commission Assumes That 9/11 Resulted From A Lack Of Government Action. No One In Washington Has Raised The Question Of Whether Our Shortcomings, Brought To Light By 9/11, Could Have Been A Result Of Too Much Government.

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.

I Hope Every Person Who Reads Or Hears This Will Take The Time To Go Back And Read The Declaration Of Independence. Only By Recapturing The Spirit Of Independence Can We Ensure Our Government Never Resembles The One From Which The American States Declared Their Separation.

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.

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 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.

Outsourcing Is A Reflection Of A Bad Economic Environment Domestically. If You Fix That, You Fix Outsourcing. Our Primary Export Is Paper Money, And That Should Change If You Change The Monetary Policy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Once You Get The Government Involved In Agriculture You'll Have Nothing But Problems And Expenses.

There Should Essentially Be No Limits To The Voluntary Definition Of Marriage.

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.

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

Without Question, The True Goal Of Some In Congress Is To Create A System Of Socialized Medicine. It's Politically Expedient To Slap A "patients’ Rights" Label On Legislation That Simply Leads Us Closer To A Complete Government Takeover Of Medicine.

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.

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

It’s Amazing That People Don’t Understand That The More The Market Is Involved And The Smaller The Government, The Lower The Price, The Better The Distribution, And The Higher The Quality.

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.

What If The American People Woke Up And Understood That The Official Reasons For Going To War Are Almost Always Based On Lies And Promoted By War Propaganda In Order To Serve Special Interests?

When One Person Can Initiate War, By Its Definition, A Republic No Longer Exists.

We Don't Need Any Troops Abroad-they Don't Help Our Defense.

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

Theory Of Evolution

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.

So The Time Line Of When We Consider A Fetus 'human' Is Arbitrary After Conception.

Our Country's Founders Cherished Liberty, Not Democracy.

Big Government Flourishes Under Republicans.

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

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.

We Get Our Rights From Our Creator As Individuals. So Every Individual Should Be Treated The Same Way.

Every Country Ended Slavery Without Civil War; Us Could Have.

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.

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 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.

The American People Are Sick And Tired Of Washington And The People Who Have Been In Charge Have Been Passing All These Bills And I've Been Voting No All Of The Time And Vote No On These Appropriation Bills.

When Things Go Badly, Individuals Look For Scapegoats. I Just Do Not Believe That Barbed-wire Fences Or Guns On Our Border Will Solve Any Of Our Problems.

Governments Have Nothing. They Can't Create Anything, They Never Have. All They Can Do Is Steal From One Group And Give It To Another At The Destruction Of The Principles Of Freedom, And We Ought To Challenge That Concept.

Having Federal Officials, Whether Judges, Bureaucrats, Or Congressmen, Impose A New Definition Of Marriage On The People Is An Act Of Social Engineering Profoundly Hostile To Liberty.

The Ultimate Goal Of The Anti-religious Elites Is To Transform America Into A Completely Secular Nation, A Nation That Is Legally And Culturally Biased Against Christianity.

If You Ever Can Bring About Revolutionary Changes, Two Things Would Be Required: Young People Would Have To Be Involved And You Would Need Music.

Freedom Is Living Without Government Coercion. So When A Politician Talks About Freedom For This Group Or That, Ask Yourself Whether He Is Advocating More Government Action Or Less.

Close Dept. Of Education, But Don't Dismantle Public Schools.

Intervention In Syria Is Not An Option. President Obama Has Already Helped Foment This Civil War And Supported The Al-qaeda Jihadists. This Is An Explosive Region, And More Us Intervention Means More People Will Die. We Should Be Choosing Peace - Not A New Conflict. More So Than Anyone Else, My Supporters Know That America Cannot Afford Another Unlawful, Immoral War In The Middle East. Stand With Me And Tell President Obama To Stay Out Of Syria.

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.

Everybody Complains About Pork, But Members Of Congress Keep Spending Because Voters Do Not Throw Them Out Of Office For Doing So. The Rotten System In Congress Will Change Only When The American People Change Their Beliefs About The Proper Role Of Government In Our Society. Too Many Members Of Congress Believe They Can Solve All Economic Problems, Cure All Social Ills, And Bring About Worldwide Peace And Prosperity Simply By Creating New Federal Programs. We Must Reject Unlimited Government And Reassert The Constitutional Rule Of Law If We Hope To Halt The Spending Orgy.

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

It Is No Coincidence That The Century Of Total War Coincided With The Century Of Central Banking.

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

No Single Person, Including The President Of The United States, Should Ever Be Given The Power To Make A Medical Decision For Potentially Millions Of Americans. Freedom Over One's Physical Person Is The Most Basic Freedom Of All, And People In A Free Society Should Be Sovereign Over Their Own Bodies. When We Give Government The Power To Make Medical Decisions For Us, We In Essence Accept That The State Owns Our Bodies.

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.

Washington Bureaucrats Have Classified The Very Air We Exhale As A Pollutant And Have Gone Unchallenged In This Incredible Assertion. The Logical Consequence Is That There Will Come A Time When We Will Have To Buy A Government Permit Just To Emit Carbon Dioxide Into The Atmosphere From Our Own Lungs!

Our Forefathers Would Think It's Time For A Revolution. This Is Why They Revolted In The First Place... They Revolted Against Much More Mild Oppression.

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.

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

General Welfare Is A General Condition - Maybe Sound Currency Is General Welfare, Maybe Markets, Maybe Judicial System, Maybe A National Defense, But This Is Specific Welfare. This Justifies The Whole Welfare State - The Military Industrial Complex, The Welfare To Foreigners, The Welfare State That Imprisons Our People And Impoverishes Our People And Gives Us Our Recession.

As Long As We Live Beyond Our Means, We Are Destined To Live Beneath Our Means.

I Have My Shortcomings. But The Message, It Has No Shortcomings. The Message Of Liberty Is What America Is All About.

We Must Remember, Elections Are Short-term Efforts. Revolutions Are Long-term Projects.

Right Now, Nobody Legalized Paper Money. Where Did That Come From.

From The Great Depression, To The Stagflation Of The Seventies, To The Current Economic Crisis Caused By The Housing Bubble, Every Economic Downturn Suffered By This Country Over The Past Century Can Be Traced To Federal Reserve Policy. The Fed Has Followed A Consistent Policy Of Flooding The Economy With Easy Money, Leading To A Misallocation Of Resources And An Artificial 'boom' Followed By A Recession Or Depression When The Fed-created Bubble Bursts.

Throughout The 20th Century, The Republican Party Benefited From A Non-interventionist Foreign Policy. Think Of How Eisenhower Came In To Stop The Korean War. Think Of How Nixon Was Elected To Stop The Mess In Vietnam.

I Believe That When We Overdo Our Military Aggressiveness, What It Does It Actually Weakens Our National Defense. I Mean, We Stood Up To The Soviets. They Had 40,000 Nuclear Weapons. Now We're Fretting Day In And Day - Night About Third-world Countries That Have No Army, Navy Or Air Force.

In The Free Society Envisioned By The Founders, Schools Are Held Accountable To Parents, Not Federal Bureaucrats.

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

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.

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?

The Greatest Threat Facing America Today Is The Disastrous Fiscal Policies Of Our Own Government, Marked By Shameless Deficit Spending And Federal Reserve Currency Devaluation. It Is This One-two Punch - Congress Spending More Than It Can Tax Or Borrow, And The Fed Printing Money To Make Up The Difference - That Threatens To Impoverish Us By Further Destroying The Value Of Our Dollars.

We're Bankrupting Our Country And We Have An Empire That We're Trying To Defend Which Costs Us $1 Trillion A Year. And The Standard Of Living Is Going Down Today. It's Going Down And The Middle Class Is Hurting Because Of The Monetary Policy. When You Destroy A Currency, The Middle Class Gets Wiped Out.

Some Members Of Congress Will Claim That The Federal Government Needs The Power To Monitor Americans In Order To Allow The Government To Operate More Efficiently. I Would Remind My Colleagues That, In A Constitutional Republic, The People Are Never Asked To Sacrifice Their Liberties To Make The Jobs Of Government Officials Easier.

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

I Have Some Help On Tweeting.

Speak Up, Speak Often And Don’t Worry About Those That At This Point Cannot Understand As They Can Never Un-hear What We Tell Them.

The Only Thing We Should Prohibit Is Violence.

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

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

White Castle Has A Unique Position In The Midwest. It Is A Cult Brand That Has Developed A Strong, Loyal Following.

The Catch-all Phrase "the War On Terrorism", In All Honesty, Has No More Meaning Than If One Wants To Wage A War Against "criminal Gangsterism". Terrorism Is A Tactic. You Can't Have A War Against A Tactic. It's Deliberately Vague And Non-definable In Order To Justify And Permit Perpetual War Anywhere And Under Any Circumstance.

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.

Believe Me, The Intellectual Revolution Is Going On, And That Has To Come First Before You See The Political Changes. That's Where I'm Very Optimistic.

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

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.

No Matter What Politicians Promise, Social Security Reform Will Not Change The Fact That Your Money Is Taken From Your Paycheck And Sent To Washington, Where It Will Be Spent.

I Have Never Been One Who Is Comfortable Talking About My Faith In The Political Arena. In Fact, The Pandering That Typically Occurs In The Election Season I Find To Be Distasteful. But For Those Who Have Asked, I Freely Confess That Jesus Christ Is My Personal Savior, And That I Seek His Guidance In All That I Do.

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.

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.

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.

The President And Other Government Officials Denounce School Violence, Yet Still Advocate For Endless Undeclared Wars Abroad And Easy Abortion At Home. U.s. Drone Strikes Kill Thousands, But Nobody In America Holds Vigils Or Devotes Much News Coverage To Those Victims, Many Of Which Are Children, Albeit, Of A Different Color.

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.

When It Comes To The Environment And Global Warming From Emissions, It Has To Be Dealt With In One Of Two Ways - Preemptive Regulations, Which I Don't Agree With, Or With Private Property Principles. Nobody Has The Right To Pollute Their Neighbors' Air Or Water Or Land.

It Is Dissent From Government Policies Which Defines The True Patriot

The Ultimate Goal Is Not Simply A Superhighway, But An Integrated North American Union--complete With A Currency, A Cross-national Bureaucracy, And Virtually Borderless Travel Within The Union. Like The European Union, A North American Union Would Represent Another Step Toward The Abolition Of National Sovereignty Altogether.

I Think Israel Should Be Treated As An Independent Nation And Not A Puppet Of Our State.

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

I Don't Know How To Run Your Life. I Don't Know How To Run Your Life. I Don't Have The Authority To Run Your Life. And The Constitution Doesn't Permit Me To Run Your Life.

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.

Why Is Patriotism Thought To Be Blind Loyalty To The Government And The Politicians Who Run It, Rather Than Loyalty To The Principles Of Liberty And Support For The People? Real Patriotism Is A Willingness To Challenge The Government When It's Wrong.

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

We Need To Get The Government Out Of The Way. Inflation Hits The Middle Class And The Poor The Most. Those Are The People Who Are Losing It. We Don't Have Enough Competition. There's A Doctor Monopoly Out There. We Need Alternative Health Care Freely Available To The People. They Ought To Be Able To Make Their Own Choices And Not Controlled By The Fda Preventing Them To Use Some Of The Medications.

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.

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.

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

I Would Absolutely Never Use The Federal Government To Enforce The Law Of Using Marijuana

Let It Not Be Said That No One Cared, That No One Objected Once It’s Realized That Our Liberties And Wealth Are In Jeopardy.

There's Not Much You Can Do About The Bias Of The Media Other Than Try To Counteract It By Putting The Truth Out Best You Can, And The Internet Has Been A Great Weapon For Holding The Media Accountable.

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.

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.

Al-awlaki Was Born Here, He Is An American Citizen. He Was Never Tried Or Charged For Any Crimes. No One Knows If He Killed Anybody. We Know He Might Have Been Associated With The Underwear Bomber. But If The American People Accept This Blindly And Casually That We Now Have An Accepted Practice Of The President Assassinating People Who He Thinks Are Bad Guys, I Think It's Sad.

One Thing Is Clear: The Founding Fathers Never Intended A Nation Where Citizens Would Pay Nearly Half Of Everything They Earn To The Government.

Could America Exist Without An Income Tax? The Idea Seems Radical, Yet In Truth America Did Just Fine Without A Federal Income Tax For The First 126 Years Of Her History.

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.

Well, I Don't Think We Should Go To The Moon. I Think We Maybe Should Send Some Politicians Up There.

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.

You Have To Remember, Rights Don't Come In Groups We Shouldn't Have 'gay Rights'; Rights Come As Individuals, And We Wouldn't Have This Major Debate Going On. It Would Be Behavior That Would Count, Not What Person Belongs To What Group.

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.

Secession Is A Deeply American Principle. This Country Was Born Through Secession.

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 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.

Government Is The Enemy Of Conservatism And Freedom.

People Should Not Be Able To Vote To Take Away The Rights Of Others.

It's Not Like I'm Just Trying To Win And Get Elected. I'm Trying To Change The Course Of History.

Trying To Change

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.

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

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

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.

If You Drink Too Much, You Go Out And You Harm To Somebody, You Have To Suffer The Consequences. Same Way With Health Matters. You Don't Have The Right To Demand That Someone Else Take Care Of You Because Of Your Habits.

We're Being Taxed To Blow Up Bridges In Iraq And Rebuild Them, While Ours At Home Are Falling Down

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... This Idea That The Government Has Services Or Goods That They Can Pass On Is A Complete Farce. Governments Have Nothing. They Can't Create Anything, They Never Have. All They Can Do Is Steal From One Group And Give It To Another At The Destruction Of The Principles Of Freedom, And We Ought To Challenge That Concept.

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.

Immigrants Can Spread Diseases For Which We May Have No Immunity. There Is Also The Question Of Crime And Culture. Many Immigrants Come From Countries With Different Legal Structures And Are Not Willing To Behave In The Way We Expect American Citizens To Behave.

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?'

Our Federal Government, Which Was Intended To Operate As A Very Limited Constitutional Republic, Has Instead Become A Virtually Socialist Leviathan That Redistributes Trillions Of Dollars. We Can Hardly Be Surprised When Countless Special Interests Fight For The Money. The Only True Solution To The Campaign Money Problem Is A Return To A Proper Constitutional Government That Does Not Control The Economy. Big Government And Big Campaign Money Go Hand-in-hand.

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.

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

Each Of Us Should Choose Which Course Of Action We Must Take; Education, Conventional Political Action, Or Even Peaceful Civil Disobedience To Bring About Necessary Changes, But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing.

Necessary Change

What We Need Is A Strong Defense, But Right Now There Is Zero Chance Of An Invasion By Another Country And Right Now We Have More Firepower Than All Other Countries Put Together.

Stop Policing The World And We Can Get Rid Of Income Tax.

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.

I Have This Terrible Habit Of Wanting To Try To Be Consistent And Develop A Philosophy That's Coherent.

To Me, To Be A Conservative Means To Conserve The Good Parts Of America And To Conserve Our Constitution.

Suicide Terrorism Stops When We Stop Intervening Abroad.

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.

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.

When We Finally Decide That Drug Prohibition Has Been No More Successful Than Alcohol Prohibition, The Drug Dealers Will Disappear.

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

One Thing Is Certain: Those Who Worked And Voted For Less Government, The Very Foot Soldiers In The Conservative Revolution, Have Been Deceived. Today, The Ideal Of Limited Government Has Been Abandoned By The Gop, And Real Conservatives Find Their Views No Longer Matter.

The Only Thing We Learn From History, I Am Afraid, Is That We Do Not Learn From History.

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing] Was A Setup By The Israeli Mossad, As A Jewish Friend Of Mine Suspects, Or Was Truly A Retaliation By The Islamic Fundamentalists, Matters Little.

Once Created, Federal Programs Are Nearly Impossible To Eliminate.

Reject The Phony Patients' Bill Of Rights....we Don't Have To Continue Down The Path Of Socialized Medical Care, Especially In America Where Free Markets Have Provided So Much For So Many.

First Reason Is, It's Not Authorized In The Constitution, It's An Illegal Institution. The Second Reason, It's An Immoral Institution, Because We Have Delivered To A Secretive Body The Privilege Of Creating Money Out Of Thin Air; If You Or I Did It, We'd Be Called Counterfeiters, So Why Have We Legalized Counterfeiting? But The Economic Reasons Are Overwhelming: The Federal Reserve Is The Creature That Destroys Value.

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

In A Free Society We're Supposed To Know The Truth. In A Society Where Truth Becomes Treason, Then We're In Big Trouble. And Now, People Who Are Revealing The Truth Are Getting Into Trouble For It.

While President Obama Was Starting And Expanding Unconstitutiona L Wars Overseas, Bradley Manning, Whose Actions Have Caused Exactly Zero Deaths, Was Shining Light On The Truth Behind These Wars.

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.

Amend Constitution To Remove Aliens' Birthright Citizenship.

Because Federal Hate Crime Laws Criminalize Thoughts, They Are Incompatible With A Free Society.

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.

Privacy Is Freedom. Leave Us Alone!

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.

Under The Constitution, There Was Never Meant To Be A Federal Police Force. Even An Fbi Limited Only To Investigations Was Not Accepted Until This Century. Yet Today, Fueled By The Federal Government's Misdirected War On Drugs, Radical Environmentalism, And The Aggressive Behavior Of The Nanny State, We Have Witnessed The Massive Buildup Of A Virtual Army Of Armed Regulators Prowling The States Where They Have No Legal Authority. The Sacrifice Of Individual Responsibility And The Concept Of Local Government By The Majority Of American Citizens Has Permitted The Army Of Bureaucrats To Thrive.

Trending Author

John Philpot Curran

Category