"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."
-Ron Paul
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"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.“
-Ron Paul
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"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank."
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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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"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."
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"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."
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"I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care."
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