For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
RAND PAULUnless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
More Rand Paul Quotes
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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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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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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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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If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
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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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Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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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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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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