Ron Paul Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Rights

  Cnn National Security Debate, archives.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

• If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Liberty

• Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during a crisis, hoping to gain some measure of security. Yet nothing would please terrorists more than if we willingly gave up our cherished liberties because of their actions.

  Ron Paul

  Strong, War, Sacrifice

• Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Loss

• Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Government

• When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Order

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  Ron Paul

  War, Responsibility, Army

• In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

  Ron Paul

  Sacrifice, People, Liberty

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