In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
RAND PAULIf you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
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If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.
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We have to think before we act.
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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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