Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

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You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad

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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

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It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

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History is the memory of States.

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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem

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History knows no resting places and no plateaus

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Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

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Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretationâ€”at least in the foreign policy worldâ€”depend on context and relevance.

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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.

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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,â€ Bismarck had cautioned.

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Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

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Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

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I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

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Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

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I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

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Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

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I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like

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You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble

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When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

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During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

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Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Ron Paul

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Ron Paul

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Ron Paul

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Ron Paul

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Ron Paul

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad

Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

Henry Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Henry Kissinger

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Henry Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Henry Kissinger

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Henry Kissinger

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Henry Kissinger

In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Henry Kissinger

History is the memory of States.

Henry Kissinger

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry Kissinger

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Henry Kissinger

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

Henry Kissinger

Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

Henry Kissinger

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

Henry Kissinger

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem

Henry Kissinger

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Henry Kissinger

Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretationâ€”at least in the foreign policy worldâ€”depend on context and relevance.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,â€ Bismarck had cautioned.

Henry Kissinger

Ron Paul

Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Ron Paul

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

Ron Paul

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

Ron Paul

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Ron Paul

Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,â€ Bismarck had cautioned.