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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.

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

We Don't Have The Freedom Of Speech To Talk About The Weather. We Have The First Amendment So We Can Say Some Very Controversial Things.

Freedom Of Speech

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm Convinced That You Never Have To Give Up Liberties To Be Safe. I Think You're Less Safe When You Give Up Your Liberties.

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

If You Sacrifice Liberty For Security, You Will Lose Both.

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

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

Terror Is A Tactic. We Can Not Wage "war" Against A Tactic.

If You Can’t Protect Life, Then How Can You Protect Liberty?

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.

Congress Remains In Total Denial As Our Liberties Are Rapidly Fading Before Our Eyes. The Process Is Propelled By Unwarranted Fear And Ignorance As To The True Meaning Of Liberty. It Is Driven By Economic Myths, Fallacies And Irrational Good Intentions.

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.

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.

I Will Always Vote What I Have Promised, And Always Vote The Constitution, As Well As I Will Not Vote For One Single Penny That Isn't Paid For, Because Debt Is The Monster, Debt Is What's Going To Eat Us Up And That Is Why Our Economy Is On The Brink.

After Years Spent In Washington, I Have Become More Aware Than Ever Of The Government's Ineptness And The Likelihood Of Its Making Mistakes. I No Longer Trust The U.s. Government To Invoke And Carry Out A Death Sentence Under Any Conditions.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It Is Dissent From Government Policies Which Defines The True Patriot

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

We Need To Understand The More Government Spends, The More Freedom Is Lost...instead Of Simply Debating Spending Levels, We Ought To Be Debating Whether The Departments, Agencies, And Programs Funded By The Budget Should Exist At All.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My Message Is Simple - Freedom Works A Lot Better Than The Authoritarian Style Of Government.

1913 Wasn't A Very Good Year. 1913 Gave Us The Income Tax, The 16th Amendment And The Irs.

I'm Not Against The Fbi Investigation In Doing A Proper Role, But I'm Against The Fbi Spying On People Like Martin Luther King. I'm Against The Cia Fighting Secret Wars And Overthrowing Government.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

Contrary To The Claims Of The Supporters Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And The Sponsors Of H.res. 676, The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Did Not Improve Race Relations Or Enhance Freedom. Instead, The Forced Integration Dictated By The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Increased Racial Tensions While Diminishing Individual Liberty.

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.

Scientifically, There's No Debate Over Whether The Fetus Is Alive And Human.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

There's Been A Coup, Have You Heard? It's The Cia Coup. The Cia Runs Everything, They Run The Military. They're The Ones Who Are Over There Lobbing Missiles And Bombs On Countries. ... And Of Course The Cia Is Every Bit As Secretive As The Federal Reserve. ... And Yet Think Of The Harm They Have Done Since They Were Established [after] World War Ii. They Are A Government Unto Themselves. They're In Businesses, In Drug Businesses, They Take Out Dictators ... We Need To Take Out The Cia.

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.

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

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

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

Unconstitutional

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Only About 5 Percent Of Blacks Have Sensible Political Opinions.

Political Opinions

Back A Hundred Years Ago, Especially Around Woodrow Wilson, What Happened In This Country Is We Took Freedom And We Chopped It Into Pieces.

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.

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.

Our Country's Founders Cherished Liberty, Not Democracy.

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!

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.

The Founding Fathers Realized That "the Power To Tax Is The Power To Destroy," Which Is Why They Did Not Give The Federal Government The Power To Impose An Income Tax. Needless To Say, The Founders Would Be Horrified To Know That Americans Today Give More Than A Third Of Their Income To The Federal Government.

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.

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.

We Are Talking About An Awesome Power. It Is The Power To Weave Illusions That Appear Real As Long As They Last. That Is The Very Core Of The Fed's Power. Of Course Not Everyone Is Instinctively Against This Illusion-weaving Power, And Many Even Welcome It. Tragically, The Innocent Who Understand Little About The Complexity Of The Monetary System Suffer The Most, While Those Who Are In The Know Reap Great Profit Whether The Market Is Going Up Or Down.

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.

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.

Privacy Is Freedom. Leave Us Alone!

The Most Important Element Of A Free Society, Where Individual Rights Are Held In The Highest Esteem, Is The Rejection Of The Initiation Of Violence.

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

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

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

I Would Say That I'm Pretty Mainstream.

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?'

We Must Educate Ourselves And Others About Our Precious Civil Liberties To Ensure That We Never Accept Demands That We Give Up Our Constitution So That The Government Can Pretend To Protect Us.

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.

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

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

Big Government Flourishes Under Republicans.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

America's Heart And Soul Is More Embedded In Our Love Of Liberty, Self-reliance, And Tolerance Than By Our Foreign Policy, Driven By Powerful Special Interests With Little Regard For The Constitution.

The Federal War On Drugs Is A Total Failure... The Federal Government's Going In There And Overriding State Laws... Why Don't We Handle The Drugs Like We Handle Alcohol? ... I Fear The Drug War Because It Undermines Our Civil Liberties. It Magnifies Our Problems On The Borders. We've Spent Over The Last 40 Years A Trillion Dollars On This War And - Believe Me - The Kids Can Still Get The Drugs. It Just Hasn't Worked.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

A Failing State Cannot Stop A Revolution Whose Time Has Come.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Most Sinister Of All Taxes Is The Inflation Tax And It Is The Most Regressive. It Hits The Poor And The Middle Class. When You Destroy A Currency By Creating Money Out Of Thin Air To Pay The Bills, The Value Of The Dollar Goes Down, And People Get Hit With A Higher Cost Of Living. It's The Middle Class That's Being Wiped Out. It Is Most Evil Of All Taxes.

Israeli Government & The Neocons Want Us To Bomb Iran.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Welfarism And Excessive Spending And Deficits And Socialism Divide Us, Because Everybody Has To Go To Washington. Those Who Have The Biggest Clout, Whose Who Are The Best Lobbyists, Those Who Go And They Grab. And Whether It's The Medical Industrial Complex, Or The Banking Industry, Or The Military Industrial Complex, That's Who Ends Up Controlling Our Government...

Bush Humble Foreign Policy Was Hijacked Into Nation-building.

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.

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

I Am Just Absolutely Convinced That The Best Formula For Giving Us Peace And Preserving The American Way Of Life Is Freedom, Limited Government, And Minding Our Own Business Overseas.

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.

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

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

Get Rid Of Irs; Get Rid Of Income Tax; Get Rid Of Spending.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Aggression And Forced Redistribution Of Wealth Has Nothing To Do With The Teachings Of The World's Great Religions.

Your Money Has Never Been Safe In The Government's Hands, And It Never Will Be. Governments Spend Money; It's Just Their Nature.

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

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

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.

American Voters

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

Theory Of Evolution

Why Is It Is Claimed That If People Won't Or Can't Take Care Of Their Own Needs, That People In Government Can Do It For Them?

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

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

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

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.

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

Let The Revolution Begin.

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

If You're Really Serious About Protecting People's Incomes, You've Got To Consider How You're Going To Protect The Dollar. If You Don't Have The Dollar Maintaining Its Value, No Matter Where You Put The Money You're Not Going To Have Any Value.

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

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.

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!'

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Real Patriotism Is A Willingness To Challenge The Government When It's Wrong.

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