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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin. (Rand Paul)
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. View quote
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. View quote
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. View quote
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to. View quote
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth. View quote
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There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion? View quote
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify. View quote
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values. View quote
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? View quote
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government. (Rand Paul)
We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times. View quote
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming. View quote
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry. View quote
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did. View quote
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. View quote
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives. View quote
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do. View quote
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children. View quote
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I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. View quote
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In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people. (Rand Paul)
My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream. View quote
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You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.' View quote
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. View quote
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. View quote
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