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.
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
You don’t have a right to a house, you don’t have a right to a job, you don’t have a right to medical care.
Don’t steal – the government hates competition!
What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for the next generation to get out.
I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.
Because federal hate-crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.
We need to take away the government’s money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar’s soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.
In the American political lexicon, ‘change’ always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.
I think it’s a theory, the theory of evolution and I don’t accept it as a theory.
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.
I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.
Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.
You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they’re open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.
I want to be president mainly for what I don’t want to do: I don’t want to run your life, I don’t want to run the economy, and I don’t want to police the world.
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.
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.
The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.