Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Quote by Ron Paul
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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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Ron Paul Quotes
- Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
- Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
- 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.
- Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
- I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
- Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
- When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Best Quotes
- Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
- It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
- Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
- Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
- The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
- If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
- I want my music to do the explaining.
- Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
- Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.