Ron Paul on Liberty
"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."
~Ron Paul ~
"... but we have to get people confident that freedom really is the issue and understand how it works, because we have been taught for so long that 'freedom is ok but don't carry it too far'. Well, I would say freedom is freedom, freedom comes from the fact that you are an individual. You get your life and your liberty from your creator, and the government should protect it and never take any of it away from you."
~ Ron Paul
from peech at Texas Republican State Convention 7 June 2012 ~
"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."
~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 ~
"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."
~Ron Paul ~
"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."
~Ron Paul ~
"Legitimate use of violence
can only be that which is required in self-defense."
~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 ~
"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."
~Ron Paul ~
"Ideas are very important to the shaping of society.
In fact, they are more powerful than bombings of 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."
~Ron Paul ~
"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."
~Ron Paul ~
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