“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”

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About Ron Paul

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.

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End the Fed

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2008

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