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
Men
Liberty
Promote
Causes
Injury
Free
Forced
Conscription
Sense
Price
Justifying
Death
Notion
Servitude
Makes
Cause
Notions
Ever
Risk
Conceived
Live
Serious
Bizarre

More quotes by Ron Paul

Image
Each of us should choose which course of action we must take education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.
Ron Paul
Image
Get rid of IRS get rid of income tax get rid of spending.
Ron Paul
Image
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
Ron Paul
Image
If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.
Ron Paul
Image
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
Ron Paul
Image
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Ron Paul
Image
Don't steal - the government hates competition!
Ron Paul
Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.
Ron Paul
Image
Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
Ron Paul
Image
In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.
Ron Paul
Image
I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.
Ron Paul
Image
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
Ron Paul
Image
My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.
Ron Paul
Image
What you are inferring is, If we were to legalise heroin tomorrow everybody would use heroin. How many people here would start using heroin? I bet nobody would. Oh yeah, I need the government to take care of me. I don't want to use heroin, so I need these laws.
Ron Paul
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The Founding Fathers realized that the power to tax is the power to destroy, which is why they did not give the Federal government the power to impose an income tax. Needless to say, the Founders would be horrified to know that Americans today give more than a third of their income to the Federal government.
Ron Paul
Image
They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.
Ron Paul
Image
It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.
Ron Paul
Image
You know, the greatest hoax I think that has been around in many, many years if not hundreds of years has been this hoax on the environment and global warming. You notice they don't call it global warming anymore. It's weather control.
Ron Paul