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It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

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Ron Paul
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 20
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Former U.S. Representative
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
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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.
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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.
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If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.
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The catch-all phrase the war on terrorism, in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against criminal gangsterism. Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.
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We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.
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If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.
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