Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
Ron PaulRead
They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes perseverance and dedication to a cause, suggesting that the struggle is just beginning.
In this quote, Ron Paul expresses his determination to continue fighting for change rather than giving up when faced with challenges. The phrase reflects a mindset of resilience, indicating that significant change requires ongoing effort and commitment, and that the journey is just as important as the destination.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to inspire activists during a protest.
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it's not moral or that it's not Constitutional.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?
I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.
When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.
You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.
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