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. – Rand Paul
You cant have it both ways. You cant tell me that youre taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, Bring me home some bacon. The pig has been picked clean. – Rand Paul
What Ive always said is that Im opposed to institutional racism, and I wouldve, had Ive been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. – Rand Paul
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? – Rand Paul
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. – E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest