570 Quotes by Ron Paul

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 we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

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.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.