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Ron Paul
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 20
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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.
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An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.
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I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.
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Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!
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Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
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Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.
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You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
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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.
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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.
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One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
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I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.
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Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.
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Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.
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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.
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I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.
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I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum number of people worldwide, is to pursue the cause of liberty. If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land.
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By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.
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We'd love it if we could all just come home and not worry about the rest of the world. But the problem is, they attacked us on 9/11. We were here they attacked us.
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Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.
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I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.
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