“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.”

American author, activist, medical doctor, and former politician

Ron Paul is an American author, activist, medical doctor, and former politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas in two stretches, from 1976 to 1977 and from 1979 to 1985, and again from 1997 to 2013. He is known for a long public career that moved between medicine and politics, and for three presidential runs. He was the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988, then sought the Republican nomination in 2008 and 2012.