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The Last Line Of Defense In Support Of Freedom And The Constitution Consists Of The People Themselves. If The People Want To Be Free, If They Want To Lift Themselves Out From Underneath A State Apparatus That Threatens Their Liberties, Squanders Their Resources On Needless Wars, Destroys The Value Of The Dollar, And Spews Forth Endless Propaganda About How Indispensable It Is And How Lost We Would All Be Without It, There Is No Force That Can Stop Them.

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The Last Line Of Defense In Support Of Freedom And The Constitution Consists Of The People Themselves. If The People Want To Be Free, If They Want To Lift Themselves Out From Underneath A State Apparatus That Threatens Their Liberties, Squanders Their Resources On Needless Wars, Destroys The Value Of The Dollar, And Spews Forth Endless Propaganda About How Indispensable It Is And How Lost We Would All Be Without It, There Is No Force That Can Stop Them.

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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.

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.

The Cap And Trade Bill Hr 2454 Was Voted On Last Friday. Proponents Claim This Bill Will Help The Environment, But What It Really Does Is Put Another Nail In The Economy’s Coffin.

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.

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

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

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.

I Wouldn't Vote Against Getting Rid Of The Jim Crow Laws.

Income Taxes Are Responsible For The Transformation Of The Federal Government From One Of Limited Powers Into A Vast Leviathan Whose Tentacles Reach Into Almost Every Aspect Of American Life.

Why Is It That Some People, You Know, Think We Should Obey The Constitution Sometimes And Not Other Times.

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.

If We Stuck To The Constitution As Written, We Would Have: No Federal Meddling In Our Schools; No Federal Reserve; No U.s. Membership In The Un; No Gun Control; And No Foreign Aid. We Would Have No Welfare For Big Corporations, Or The "poor"; No American Troops In 100 Foreign Countries; No Nafta, Gat, Or "fast-track"; No Arrogant Federal Judges Usurping States Rights; No Attacks On Private Property; No Income Tax. We Could Get Rid Of Most Of The Agencies, And Most Of The Budget. The Government Would Be Small, Frugal, And Limited.

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

The Theory Of The Irs Is Rather Repugnant To Me Because The Assumption Is Made That I, The Government, Owns 100% Of Your Income And I Permit You To Keep 5%, 10% Or 20%. You're Vulnerable, You've Sold Out. The Government Can Take 80% If They Want, Which They Did At One Time.

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.

Justifying Conscription To Promote The Cause Of Liberty Is One Of The Most Bizarre Notions Ever Conceived By Man! Forced Servitude, With The Risk Of Death And Serious Injury As A Price To Live Free, Makes No Sense.

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

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

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.

You Don't Quit Because You Happen To Be Behind. You Want To See How You Do. And Who Knows? Maybe Somebody Will Stumble.

I Have Never Met Anyone Who Did Not Support Our Troops. Sometimes, However, We Hear Accusations That Someone Or Some Group Does Not Support The Men And Women Serving In Our Armed Forces. But This Is Pure Demagoguery, And It Is Intellectually Dishonest.

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.

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.

It Would Help The Poor People Who Need Jobs. Minimum Wage Is A Mandate. We're Against Mandates So Why Should We Have It? It Would Be Very Beneficial.

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.

Young People Are Not Raw Material To Be Employed By The Political Class On Behalf Of Whatever Fashionable Political, Military, Or Social Cause Catches Its Fancy. In A Free Society, Their Lives Are Not The Playthings Of Government.

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

Liberty Built Civilization. It Can Rebuild Civilization.

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.

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

The Federal Government Cannot Maintain A Budget Surplus Any More Than An Alcoholic Can Leave A Fresh Bottle Of Whiskey Untouched In The Cupboard.

Government Is The Enemy Of Conservatism And Freedom.

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

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 Capital Controls And There's People Control. So Every Time You Think Of A Fence Keeping All Those Bad People Out, Think About Those Fences Maybe Being Used Against Us, Keeping Us In.

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

I Take My Marching Orders From The Constitution.

If I Were In Congress In 1996, I Would Have Voted For The Defense Of Marriage Act, Which Used Congress's Constitutional Authority To Define What Official State Documents Other States Have To Recognize Under The Full Faith And Credit Clause, To Ensure That No State Would Be Forced To Recognize A 'same Sex' Marriage License Issued In Another State.

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

Is It Any More Moral To Dilute The Value Of The Purchasing Power Of The Money You Hold In Your Wallet Than It Is For The Farmer To Dilute The Milk Supply With Water?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We Have A Lot Of Goodness In This Country. And We Should Promote It, But Never Through The Barrel Of A Gun. We Should Do It By Setting Good Standards, Motivating People And Have Them Want To Emulate Us. But You Can't Enforce Our Goodness, Like The Neocons Preach, With An Armed Force. It Doesn't Work.

Once Again, President Clinton Is Using American Troops To Deflect Attention From His Record Of Lies, Distortions, Obstructions Of Justice And Abuse Of Power.

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

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.

Everyone Who Believes In Freedom Must Work Diligently For Sound Money, Fully Redeemable. Nothing Else Is Compatible With The Humanitarian Goals Of Peace And Prosperity.

If Economy Were Good, There'd Be No Immigration Problem.

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

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.

Prohibiting Guns On Campus Made The Virginia Tech Students Less Safe, Not More.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

American Voters

I Wish I Could Say I Was Shocked At The Reports The Nsa Is Secretly Spying On The Private Phone Calls Of Millions Of Verizon Customers. However, This Is A Predictable Result Of A Government That Continues To Erode Our Liberties While Promising Some Glimmering Hope Of Security.

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.

Opinion Polls Consistently Show That Only About 5 Percent Of Blacks Have Sensible Political Opinions, I.e. Support The Free Market, Individual Liberty, And The End Of Welfare And Affirmative Action.

Political Opinions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

By Encouraging Americans To Adopt A Group Mentality, The Advocates Of So Called 'diversity' Actually Perpetuate Racism. Their Obsession With Racial Group Identity Is Inherently Racist.

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.

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.

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

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.

The World's Smallest Political Quiz Is Responsible For Many Americans' First Contact With Libertarian Ideas. While Traveling Around The Country, I Have Often Heard People Say, 'i Never Knew I Was A Libertarian Until I Took The Quiz!'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Big Government Flourishes Under Republicans.

It Is True That Liberty Is Not Free, Nor Is It Easy. But Tyranny - Even Varying Degrees Of It - Is Much More Difficult, And Much More Expensive. The Time Has Come To Rein In The Federal Government, Put It On A Crash Diet, And Let The People Keep Their Money And Their Liberty.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We Have A Greater Responsibility To Act Than Those Who Live In Ignorance. Once You Become Knowledgeable, You Have An Obligation To Do Something About It.

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.

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.

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

Don't Steal - The Government Hates Competition!

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

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

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.

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.

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 Think A Submarine Is A Very Worthwhile Weapon. I Believe We Can Defend Ourselves With Submarines And All Our Troops Back At Home. This Whole Idea That We Have To Be In 130 Countries And 900 Bases... Is An Old-fashioned Idea.

Privacy Is Freedom. Leave Us Alone!

I Have Some Help On Tweeting.

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.

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.

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

Deficit Spending

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.

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.

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

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

May Future Generations Look Back On Our Work And Say That These Were Men And Women Who, In A Moment Of Great Crisis, Stood Up To Their Politicians, The Opinion-makers, And The Establishment, And Saved Their Country.

Israeli Government & The Neocons Want Us To Bomb Iran.

We Should Have A Strong President. Strong Enough To Resist The Temptation Of Taking Power That A President Shouldn't Have.

We Don't Think A Child Of 13 Should Be Held Responsible As A Man Of 23. That's True For Most People, But Black Males Age 13 Who Have Been Raised On The Streets And Who Have Joined Criminal Gangs Are As Big, Strong, Tough, Scary And Culpable As Any Adult And Should Be Treated As Such.

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.

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

It Is Dissent From Government Policies Which Defines The True Patriot

I'm Always Looking For An Opportunity To Bring Progressive Democrats Together With Some Conservative Libertarian Types, Because There Are Places Where We Can Agree.

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

There Is No Such Thing As A Hate Crime.

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.

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.

What You Are Inferring Is, If We Were To Legalise Heroin Tomorrow Everybody Would Use Heroin. How Many People Here Would Start Using Heroin? I Bet Nobody Would. Oh Yeah, I Need The Government To Take Care Of Me. I Don't Want To Use Heroin, So I Need These Laws.

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

Imagine If The Political Elites In Our Country Were Forced To Endure The Same Conditions At The Airport As Business Travelers, Families, Senior Citizens, And The Rest Of Us. Perhaps This Problem Could Be Quickly Resolved If Every Cabinet Secretary, Every Member Of Congress, And Every Department Head In The Obama Administration Were Forced To Submit To The Same Degrading Screening Process As The People Who Pay Their Salaries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What's Happening Is There's Transfer Of Wealth From The Poor And The Middle Class To The Wealthy. This Comes About Because Of The Monetary System That We Have. When You Inflate A Currency Or Destroy A Currency, The Middle Class Gets Wiped Out, So The People Who Get To Use The Money First, Which Is Created By The Federal Reserve System, Benefit, So The Money Gravitates To The Banks And To Wall Street. That's Why You Have More Billionaires Than Ever Before.

I Will Veto Any Spending Bill That Contains Funding For Planned Parenthood, Facilities That Perform Abortion And All Government Family Planning Schemes.

You Can At Least Let Sick People Have Marijuana Because It's Helpful. But The Compassionate Conservatives Say, Well We Can't Do This, We're Going To Put People Who Are Sick And Dying With Cancer And Are Being Helped With Marijuana If They Have Multiple Sclerosis - The Federal Government Is Going In There And Overriding State Laws And Putting People Like That In Prison.

What We Need To Do Is Not Only Live Within Our Means, But Start Paying Down The Deficit, And Offer An Opportunity At Least For The Next Generation To Get Out.

Expect The Rapidly Expanding Homeschooling Movement To Play A Significant Role In The Revolutionary Reforms Needed To Build A Free Society With Constitutional Protections.

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.

I Believe That Israel Is One Of Our Most Important Friends In The World.

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

Governments, Whether They're Dictatorships Or Democracies, Reflect The People. When The People Get Fed Up, They Throw Them Out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Quantitative Easing Is Just The Latest Chapter In The Federal Reserve’s Hundred-year History Of Failure. (...) The American People Have Suffered Long Enough Under A Monetary Policy Controlled By An Unaccountable, Secretive Central Bank. It Is Time To Finally Audit - And Then End - The Fed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Politicians Throughout History Have Tried To Solve Every Problem Conceivable To Man, Always Failing To Recognize That Many Of The Problems We Face Result From Previous So-called Political Solutions. Government Cannot Be The Answer To Every Human Ill. Continuing To View More Government As The Solution To Problems Will Only Make Matters Worse.

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

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

I Want To Just Obey The Constitution.the Constitution Says Only Gold And Silver Can Be Legal Tender.

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.

As Recent As The Year 2000 We Won Elections By Saying We Shouldn't Be The Policemen Of The World, And That We Should Not Be Nation Building. And Its Time We Got Those Values Back Into This Country.

Our Country's Founders Cherished Liberty, Not Democracy.

No One Talks About The Real Ethics Disaster In Washington. It's That Many Members Of Congress Will Listen To Any Argument Against A Bill Except For Two: That It's Not Moral Or That It's Not Constitutional.

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

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.

Critics Of Nafta And Cafta Warned At The Time That The Agreements Were Actually A Move Toward ... An Eventual Merging Of North America Into A Border-free Area. Proponents Of These Agreements Dismissed This As Preposterous And Conspiratorial. Now We See That The Criticisms Appear To Be Justified.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Founders Warned That A Free Society Depends On A Virtuous And Moral People. The Current Crisis Reflects That Their Concerns Were Justified.

I Never Would Force The Justice Department To Go To California And Arrest People Getting Medical Marijuana, When That's The Law There.

Bush Humble Foreign Policy Was Hijacked Into Nation-building.

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.

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!

Both Sides Of The Political Spectrum Must One Day Realize That Limitless Government Intrusion In The Economy, In Our Personal Lives, And In The Affairs Of Other Nations Cannot Serve The Best Interests Of America.

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Because Gold Is Honest Money It Is Disliked By Dishonest Men.

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

If You Like Small Government You Need To Work Hard At Having A Strong National Defense That Is Not So Militant. Personal Liberty Is The Purpose Of Government, To Protect Liberty - Not To Run Your Personal Life, Not To Run The Economy, And Not To Pretend That We Can Tell The World How They Ought To Live.

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

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

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.

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