printRon Paul melds the teachings of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament to remind “Values Voters” at the 2011 Summit of the Biblical imperative and the blessings of peace, and personal sovereignty; of the need to follow the Golden Rule (treat others as you wish to be treated), of the importance of striving for virtue and excellence as individuals—and not as subjects beholden to the proverbial king about whose evils Samuel forewarned. Above all, Paul emphasized the urgent need to revive the restraints this country once placed on the federal government. And fast.
Read the complete speech.
The Texas congressman won 37% of the poll at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, sponsored by the Family Research Council, a social conservative group.
Ron can WIN the Republican nomination in 12 , lots of things are breaking his way , with a lot of hard work & positive thinking by us in the long time freedom & liberty crowd , we just might drag this County back to it’s founding principals !
Please read and if you find it true and relevant to today’s political environment, then forward to those you think are misusing their power in efforts to enslave us.
http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-2-number-6/power-corrupts
Thank you for posting a link to Congressman Pauls speech. This is a wonderful speech that every American should read and the media should be repeating for the next week on television. But we all know that is not going to happen. The Christian church should take Dr. Pauls words to heart. I am an Evangelical Christian and finally came to the conclusion three years ago that Christians are too quick to blindly support any President that sends troops into war. Thay never seem to ask why? Is it justified, legal? Chuck Baldwin put out a column about three weeks ago askinf “Are Evangelical Christians Warmongers?” I would have to say too many are. Link to the article below.
http://newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin666.htm
Too many people in this country get bamboozled by the media into believing nonsense that replacing Bush with Obama or Obama with Romney or equivalent will make a difference when the same muddled philosophical mush – disrespect for the Constitution, lust for political power, unsound money, promises that cannot be kept – lies at the bottom of the movement.
I enjoyed Baldwin’s essay and Ron Paul’s speech. Unfortunately, the right is still into warmongering. Ron Paul does not shine in the 20 second sound bites of “why did terrorists attack us” hooey in the debates …. and most Americans believe in this America Uber Alles that can do no wrong and that America is somehow obligated to rule the planet.
There is much in the Bible that can point the way to a moral and free society – but the sheeple would rather have a TSA fondle us in the name of safety, arrest children to keep them free of drugs, and other monstrous violations of human liberty.
A fine speech from Dr. Paul. Truly, the role of our laws is not to make men saints, but rather to make them behave. This is in the realm of what has been termed “sins of commission”. However, it seems once government ventures beyond those limits into the territory of “sins of omission”, which involves judging internal motivations, something government is wholly unqualified to do, that’s when liberty is at stake.
I have heard and read that Dr. Paul is a moral relativist, etc. Nonsense! The family, the community have their proper spheres where the federal government (i.e. “the king”) ought not have authority. This I understand to be the thrust of his speech, and I agree with him entirely.
A recent Drudge headline highlighted a poll that said RP would beat Obama in the general election. I do not believe for one minute that he will get the Republican nomination but if the poll is true then does this not cast doubt on the reasoning that says running as a third party candidate would throw the election to Obama?