The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
RAND PAULYou can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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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.
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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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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.
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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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We have to think before we act.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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