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Ron Paul is the most libertarian member of Congress - and in that regard he is my favorite member of Congress. Congressman Paul does not mince words - he says what he means and does not mind saying it twice:
Paul is very limited government across the board and a non-interventionist foreign policy: live and let live in the states and let other nation do likewise.
Paul is not a rugged individualists or an isolationist. Like most libertarians, he believes in the virtues of helping your neighbor and charity. Before going to Congress, he was a doctor at a Christian hospital that never turned anyone away. They treated you even if you could not pay a dime.
And Paul wants to trade with the people of the world. But he wants peaceful relations. No wars - unless America is confronted as in, say, World War 2. And it is not America's responsibility to fix all the ills in the world or spread democracy. To the world, we wish you good tidings and pledge peaceful relations. And we welcome commercial, cultural, touristic and academic exchanges. But we will not intervene in your domestic affairs. That is Paul's motto and it is in harmony with the Founding Fathers. As Jefferson's once wrote:
"I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance, or joining in the confederacy of Kings to war against the principles of liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:77
"I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property and lives of their people." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1823. ME: 15:436
"I sincerely join... in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and though I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 1799. ME 10:124
"We have a perfect horror at everything like connecting ourselves with the politics of Europe." --Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1801. ME 10:285
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801. ME 3:321
"We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation." --Thomas Jefferson to Mme de Stael-Holstein, 1815. ME 14:333
But sometimes Paul can be too far in advocating non-interventionism. There is no harming in signing onto a resolution that wishes the people of Haiti condolences for their tragedy:
U.S. House Votes 411-1 to "express condolences" to the people of Haiti
Unfortunately, Paul was that 1 NO vote. 'O well, nobody's perfect.
