{"author":"Ron Paul","author_id":"Ron+Paul","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["politics"],"id":6600,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["freedom","liberty","kind "],"id":10031,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["government","morality","politics"],"id":13315,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["challenge","government","real "],"id":33817,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["political"],"id":36116,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"Let the revolution begin.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["inspirational","political"],"id":39702,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes much more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we ca make real change that lasts.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["government","ideas","liberty"],"id":41244,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["army","freedom","government","idea","liberty","politics","revolution","ron-paul"],"id":50757,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal thing; it is not collective. You don’t gain liberty because you belong to a group. So we don’t talk about women’s rights or gay rights or anything else. Everybody has an absolute equal right as an individual, and it comes to them naturally.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["anarchy","ancap","coercion","collectivism","freedom","government","individual-rights","individualism","libertarian","liberty","natural-law","natural-rights","philosophy","statism","voluntaryism","voluntaryist"],"id":62819,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"},{"text":"And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.","author":"Ron Paul","tags":["freedom","government","liberty"],"id":66093,"author_id":"Ron+Paul"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}