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I wouldn't go so far as to say Ron Paul is our last hope, because I know that eventually someone else will stand up to this BS their constantly spewing out, but he can make one of the biggest changes in human history in my opinion by getting elected and cleaning things up.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. (Back then!)
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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It is better to tolerate that rare instance of a parent’s refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of his father
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Originally posted by ararisq
No one cares. The only people protesting seem to want more power and control to be handed over to the government. They are about a constitution with positive-liberties which states what the government must do to you versus one of negative-liberties (as Obama put it) like the one that we have which states what the government cannot do to you.
Collectively the politicians just agree to ignore it now and without consequence they will succeed. We are subjugated.