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Ron Paul Liberty Report

Flashback 1988 - Ron Paul on The Proper Role of Government

Ron Paul Liberty Report

Ron Paul Liberty Report

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Liberty Report will be back LIVE on Thursday. Please enjoy this flashback from 1988.

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We have an opportunity to present a different view on the role of government.

0:10.0

At least we get to ask the question.

0:12.0

It only comes rarely in history.

0:15.0

Like the founders of the country, our founding fathers and forefathers certainly ask the question

0:20.0

or they wouldn't have done what they did.

0:23.0

They said, well, is the proper role of government what the British thinks is a proper role of government?

0:28.0

And they come down and they said, no, they didn't like the British.

0:32.0

So they said, we will declare our independence and we will be willing to fight for it.

0:37.0

And they did it and they wrote a guideline for us called the Constitution.

0:41.0

A relatively good document.

0:43.0

But something that is totally unobserved, I believe, in this century, especially here in the last several decades,

0:50.0

and has gotten a lot worse.

0:53.0

This means it has to be done through persuasion.

0:56.0

If you want changes, it cannot be done with coercion and violence.

1:00.0

It means we have a free market system of money.

1:03.0

But it means that we define very clearly whose life it really is.

1:07.0

It is our life.

1:08.0

Our life comes to us in a very natural way.

1:11.0

It doesn't come from government.

1:13.0

Since it is our life, it's our liberty.

1:15.0

It is also our obligation to take care of our lives and our liberty.

1:19.0

And we should have the right and the obligation and we should have the obligation to work.

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