Ron Paul Quotes
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
Paul, Ron. Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom. Grand Central Publishing, 2011.
In the late 19th century, the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to control vicious monopolies and trusts. There were many who thought that this would be philosophically incompatible with the doctrine of free enterprise. James observed that the American philosophy required the testing of each doctrine and in the case of monopolies, the results were destructive for consumers, competitors, and society in general, with the monopolist the only beneficiary of the free enterprise where consumers and competitors lose their freedom.
Ronald Ernest Paul is an American author, physician, and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States: as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and as a candidate for the Republican Party in 2008 and 2012. A self-described constitutionalist, Paul is a critic of the federal government's fiscal policies, especially the existence of the Federal Reserve and the tax policy, as well as the military–industrial complex, the war on drugs, and the war on terror. He has also been a vocal critic of mass surveillance policies such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the NSA surveillance programs. He was the first chairman of the conservative PAC Citizens for a Sound Economy, a free-market group focused on limited government, and has been characterized as the "intellectual godfather" of the Tea Party movement, a fiscally conservative political movement that is largely against most matters of interventionism.
