Ron Paul Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

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  War, Banking, Coincidence

  Chris Rossini, Ron Paul (2014). “Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve”, p.116, Lulu.com

• Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!

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  War, Iraq, Boots

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2014

• What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

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  Lying, War, Order

• 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.

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  War, Mean, Government

• The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

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  Money, Peace, War

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.60, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

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  Peace, War, I Hate You

• 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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  War, Might, Tradition

• The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

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  Honesty, War, Order

• Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

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  War, Thinking, Reason

• 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.

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  Powerful, War, Real

• We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

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  War, Achieve, Unconstitutional

  "'Live with Dan Abrams'". "Morning Joe", www.nbcnews.com. October 11, 2007.

• War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

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  Money, War, Historical

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

• Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

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  War, People, Liberty

  "Bush’s Wars". www.counterpunch.org. September 21, 2001.

• The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.

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  War, Believe, Kids

• There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.

  Ron Paul

  Running, Country, Military

• The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color.

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  Children, War, Home

  "Ron Paul Slams NRA Plan Recommending Armed Officers In Schools", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

• When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

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  War, Republic, Definitions

  "War power authority should be returned to Congress". Speech in Congress, March. 9, 1999.

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

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  War, Sacrifice, Liberty

• Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

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  War, Tactics, Terror

• 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.

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  Strong, War, Sacrifice

• Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

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  Country, War, Pay

• During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.

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  Country, War, Fighting

• They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.

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  War, Libertarian, Taught

• 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.

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  War, Sacrifice, Loss

• 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.

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  War, Support, Hussein

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