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"Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because
it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. Freedom is not defined by
safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government
interference."
US Congressman Ron Paul, in his "Texas Straight Talk" column, August 2004
"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."1987
"...[W]ars have been used throughout modern history to justify rapid expansion of state
power at the expense of personal liberty. We cannot remain free if we allow the endless,
undeclared war on terror to serve as an excuse for giving up every last vestige of our
privacy. ... Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves what kind of society we hope to leave
our children and grandchildren. A civilized and free society would not be discussing,
much less seriously debating, any proposal to enlist private citizens to act as federal
neighborhood snitches."
"Federal spending is wildly out of control. Federal taxes now consume more of the
legitimate private economy than at any time in our nation's history except WW II. The
federal budget is full of billions in unconstitutional and wasteful pork, and no serious
person can argue otherwise .... An income tax would be wholly unnecessary if Congress
restrained itself and spent your tax dollars only on legitimate constitutional functions
like national defense."
"If we ever hope to enjoy real and lasting prosperity in this country, we must redefine
our view of the proper role of government. It is tempting during difficult times to
demand that the government 'do something,' but a free society is defined by what its
government does not do."
"Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions in all of us. Yet we must
be careful to preserve personal liberty and privacy rights in the months ahead.
Sometimes the people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties
during a crisis, hoping to gain some measure of security. Yet nothing would please
the terrorists more than if we willingly gave up some of our cherished liberties because
of their actions."
"Arming pilots remains the smartest and sanest approach to making the skies safer
immediately."
"Today's American soldiers are the veterans of the future, and they should never be sent
to war without clear objectives that serve definite American national security interests.
They should never fight at the behest of the United Nations or any other international
agency. They should never serve under a UN flag, nor answer to a UN commander. They
deserve to know that they fight for the American people and the Constitution, and that
the decision to send them into battle was made by their own Congress rather than by UN
bureaucrats who don't care about them. Only by using American troops judiciously and
in service of the Constitution can we avoid the kind of endless military entanglements
we witnessed in Korea and Vietnam. We honor our veterans by ensuring that their service
to the nation is never in vain."
"No corporation on earth comes close to the accounting fraud practiced year after year
by the federal government."
"The judges [who want 'under God' out of the Pledge of Allegiance] simply do not
understand the First Amendment. It does not bar religious expression in public settings
or anywhere else. In fact, it expressly PROHIBITS federal interference in the free
expression of religion. Far from mandating strict secularism in schools, it instead
bars the federal government from prohibiting the Pledge of Allegiance, school prayer,
or any other religious expression. The politicians and judges pushing the removal of
religion from public life are violating the First Amendment, not upholding it."
"The tired argument that the estate tax only affects the rich is simply false. ...
[F]armers, ranchers, and small business owners ... are hardly rich, but some of them
have built up valuable businesses they would like to pass on to their children. Yet when
they die, their children rarely have the liquid cash needed to pay the death tax bill.
Often the business must be sold or divided to raise money for the IRS. Many family farms
across this country have been bought by large corporations because of the estate tax.
Ultimately, the argument against the death tax is a moral one. People should not be
punished for working hard, saving, and building wealth. Our society should respect the
most basic property right, namely the right todispose of one's property as one wishes.
The American dream is based on making a better life for one's children, despite the empty
rhetoric of the class-warfare politicians in Washington. Building wealth is not sinister,
it is admirable. Our tax rules should encourage the decidedly American virtue of saving
for the future."
"Freedom and prosperity cannot coexist with socialism and endless war. Yet socialism and
endless war are exactly what most in Washington are promoting."
"The only legitimate purpose of our tax system is to raise revenues needed to run the
government. It's not the government's job to determine how you should use your money."
"The United Nations gun-grabbers don't care about our Constitution and they don't care
about national sovereignty. The UN always wants to expand its power, and global gun
control goes hand-in-hand with global government. Every American who cares about the 2nd
Amendment should oppose this latest UN attempt to dictate our domestic laws. There is no
question that the UN ultimately seeks to impose worldwide gun control, although it has no
legal or moral authority to do so."
"The principles enshrined in the Constitution do not change. If anything, today's more
complex world cries out for the moral clarity provided by a noninterventionist foreign
policy."
"A danger exists that the United States is becoming a police state. Just a few decades
ago, this would have been unimaginable. The American republic was not designed with
federal police powers, which should be the sole prerogative of the states. The military
should not be used as police. Unfortunately, many Americans now welcome the use of
military troops to police our public places, especially airports. Even before Sept. 11th,
more than 80,000 armed federal bureaucrats patrolled the countryside, checking for
violations of federal laws and regulations. That number since September has increased by
nearly 50% -- and it will not shrink any time soon. Meanwhile, a military takeover of
homeland security looks certain. Can freedom and prosperity survive if the police state
continues to expand?"April 2002
"Can you name one government reform that actually improved anything? How many times has
Social Security been reformed? How about public education? Health care? Let's not forget
the IRS! In Washington,'reform' always means more spending, more taxes, more regulations,
more bureaucrats, and less freedom."
"The long-awaited 'campaign finance reform' vote finally took place last week (02/2002),
with the House ultimately passing the measure. The debate was full of hypocritical high -
minded talk about cleaning up corruption, all by the very politicians of both parties who
dole out BILLIONS in corporate subsidies and welfare pork. It was quite a spectacle
watching the big-spending, perennially-incumbent politicians argue that new laws were
needed to protect them from themselves!"
"Let us be convinced that there is not enough hate or anger to silence the cries for
liberty or to extinguish the flame of justice and truth. We must have faith that those
who now are apathetic, anxious for security at all costs, forgetful of the true spirit of
American liberty, and neglectful of the Constitution, will rise to the task and respond
accordingly."
"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."