Quote

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

Ron Paul

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ron Paul
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 20
Air Force Officer
Former U.S. Representative
Gynaecologist
Journalist
Obstetrician
Podcaster
Politician
Surgeon
Television Producer
Youtuber
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ronald Ernest Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul
Free
Forced
Conscription
Sense
Price
Justifying
Death
Notion
Servitude
Cause
Notions
Makes
Risk
Conceived
Ever
Serious
Bizarre
Live
Liberty
Promote
Men
Causes
Injury

More quotes by Ron Paul

Image
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.
Ron Paul
Image
Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.
Ron Paul
Image
This much is true: you have been lied to.
Ron Paul
Image
Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.
Ron Paul
Image
It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.
Ron Paul
Image
The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.
Ron Paul
Image
I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.
Ron Paul
Image
The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 was voted on last Friday. Proponents claim this bill will help the environment, but what it really does is put another nail in the economy’s coffin.
Ron Paul
Image
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
Ron Paul
Image
The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
Ron Paul
Image
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
Image
They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.
Ron Paul
Image
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Ron Paul
Image
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
Image
We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.
Ron Paul
Image
The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.
Ron Paul
Image
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
Ron Paul
Image
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.
Ron Paul
Image
Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.
Ron Paul
Image
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.
Ron Paul