Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone! — Ron Paul

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. — Ron Paul

The freedom message brings us together, it doesn’t divide us. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us? — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

My message is simple–freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government. — Ron Paul

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure. — Ron Paul

Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times. — Ron Paul

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen. — Ron Paul

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

I take my marching orders from the Constitution. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Amend Constitution to remove aliens’ birthright citizenship. — Ron Paul

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed. — Ron Paul

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. — Ron Paul

Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy. — Ron Paul

Patriotism never demands obedience to the state but rather obedience to the principles of liberty. — Ron Paul

I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about. — Ron Paul

In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security. — Ron Paul

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights. — Ron Paul

Ron paul states that if we are want to maintain what liberty we have left in our republic, millions, need to start taking to the streets in peaceful protests. dr. paul believes in resistance without violence. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

If people won’t spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it. — Ron Paul

I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money. — Ron Paul

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from. — Ron Paul

Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Your money has never been safe in the government’s hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it’s just their nature. — Ron Paul

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men. — Ron Paul

You can’t have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we’re on the verge of very serious economic problem. — Ron Paul

The Congress should not be creating money out of thin air, which is what Lincoln did when he created greenbacks. But it is a congressional responsibility to maintain gold and silver as a legal tender. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. — Ron Paul

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified. — Ron Paul

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? — Ron Paul

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society. — Ron Paul

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade. — Ron Paul

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections. — Ron Paul

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty? — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said–and also a smaller and elite foreign policy. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class. — Ron Paul

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? — Ron Paul

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation–building. — Ron Paul

Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession. — Ron Paul

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people. — Ron Paul

While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. — Ron Paul

You don’t have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. — Ron Paul

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. — Ron Paul

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society. — Ron Paul

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product. — Ron Paul