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The Revolution: A Manifesto

by Ron Paul · 2008

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To · The government is expanding. · Taxes are increasing. · More senseless wars are being planned. · Inflation is ballooning. · Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The… more

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Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
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An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government
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government interventions create unintended consequences that lead to calls for further intervention, and so on into a destructive spiral of more and more government control.
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No wonder frustrated Americans have begun referring to our two parties as the Republicrats. And no wonder the news networks would rather focus on $400 haircuts than matters of substance. There are no matters of substance.
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Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government. It falls upon the people, in the last resort, to stand against injustice no matter where it occurs.
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the state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.
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I believe individuals have a right to life and liberty and that physical aggression should be used only defensively. We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. That, and not a desire for “economic efficiency,” is the primary moral reason for opposing government intrusions into our lives: government is force, not reason. People
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use of government that enriched one group of people at the expense of another, and which would be illegal if private individuals tried to carry it out themselves.
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The woman was probably six months along in her pregnancy, and the child she was carrying weighed over two pounds. At that time doctors were not especially sophisticated, for lack of a better term, when it came to killing the baby prior to delivery, so they went ahead with delivery and put the baby in a bucket in the corner of the room. The baby tried to breathe, and tried to cry, and everyone in the room pretended the baby wasn’t there.
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De Tocqueville admired “the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the exertions of a great many men, and in getting them voluntarily to pursue it.
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This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To

· The government is expanding. · Taxes are increasing. · More senseless wars are being planned. · Inflation is ballooning. · Our basic freedoms are disappearing.

The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in Washington. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom, and prosperity once again, we absolutely must return to the principles upon which America was founded. But finally, there is hope . . .

In THE REVOLUTION, Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has exposed the core truths behind everything threatening America, from the real reasons behind the collapse of the dollar and the looming financial crisis, to terrorism and the loss of our

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First published
2008
Author
Ron Paul
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