List them.
I would love to see thousands of people with the knowledge of Ron Paul. Help me build my library.
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The Law - Frederick Bastiat
Nemesis by Chalmers Johnson.
1776 by David McCullough
A Foreign Policy of Freedom by Ron Paul
"Instead of the “end of history,” we are now experiencing the end of a vocal limited-government movement in our nation’s capital. While most conservatives no longer defend balanced budgets and reduced spending, most liberals have grown lazy in defending civil liberties and now are approving wars that we initiate. The so-called “third way” has arrived and, sadly, it has taken the worst of what the conservatives and liberals have to offer." -Ron Paul
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Hegemony or Survival and Failed States by Noam Chomsky.
The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek (explains why socialism doesn't work)
What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard (explains the rationale behind hard currency)
Why Government Doesn't Work - Harry Browne (self-explanatory)
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World - Harry Browne (how to better find freedom without changing the world around you)
Chomsky is a Communist.Originally Posted by Luther
The OP said "Ron Paul REPUBLICAN"
Well I always tell people read Death of the West and State of Emergency by Pat Buchanan. He has a new book out also which I haven't read yet: Day of Reckoning.
Last edited by literatim; 12-10-2007 at 09:21 PM.
Those books are critiques of U.S. foreign policy, not advocacies for particular political or economic systems. Ron Paul has said that he generally agrees with Chomsky's assessment of U.S. foreign policy, and there isn't any better scholarship on the subject. Foreign policy is a critical component of Ron Paul's candidacy; I would vote for him based on that alone, even if I disagreed with him on everything else.
Anything in the Mises Library - http://www.mises.org/
Anarchy, in my view, is synonymous with freedom.
http://www.simplyanarchy.com/
http://www.marketanarchy.com/
http://www.strike-the-root.com/
Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society- Peter McWilliams <---This is the book that started me on this path as a college freshman in 1993.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy <---It's mostly harmless
In 1986, I read 2 books:
by Congressman George Hansen.
The book reveals more about the lies and fraud being perpetrated on the American people by the IRS & DOJ.
This book also earned the Hon. George Hansen a prison sentence and physical and medical abuse until he was just a shadow of his former self.
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by Lindsey Williams
Williams, who has been an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary. The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase in 1974, and because of Mr. Williams' love for his country and concern for the spiritual welfare of the "pipeliners," he volunteered to serve as Chaplain on the pipeline, with the subsequent full support of the Alyeska Pipeline Company.
Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to the information that is documented in this book.
After numerous public speaking engagements in the western states, certain government officials and concerned individuals urged Mr. Williams to put into print what he saw and heard, stating that they felt this information was vital to national security. Mr. Williams firmly believes that whoever controls energy controls the economy. Thus, The Energy Non-Crisis.
Because of the outstanding public response that has been generated by this book, Lindsey Williams is in great demand for speaking engagements, radio, and TV shows.
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These got me started, but I also HIGHLY recommend these to every person seeking the truth:
Is America becoming a police state? Friends of liberty need to know.
Some say the U.S. is already a police state. Others watch the news for signs that their country is about to cross an indefinable line. Since September 11, 2001, the question has become more urgent. When do roving wiretaps, random checkpoints, mysterious "detentions," and military tribunals cross over from being emergency measures to being the tools of a government permanently and irrevocably out of control?
The State vs. the People examines these crucial issues. But first, it answers this fundamental question: "What is a police state?"
Though few realize it, "police state" and "tyranny" are not synonyms. A police state is a specific mode of government with unmistakable features and attitudes. Conceived in Prussia amid war, power struggles, mercantilism, and Enlightenment ideals, police states have at times been oppressive but orderly and at times have served as the machinery of monsters.
In this new book Wolfe and Zelman reveal:
• The six core characteristics that define every police state
• The nine police-state actions we must learn to recognize
• The terrible four traits that define the ultimate horror, the totalitarian police state.
Chapter by chapter, Wolfe and Zelman draw parallels between conditions in today's America and the police states of the past.You'll learn:
• That the U.S. government education system, far from failing, is doing exactly what its Prussian-inspired founders intended -- discouraging learning while promoting blind obedience.
• Why "for your own good" stands among the most persuasive arguments a police state has for gaining control of citizens.
• Why the U.S. has so many impossible-to-follow laws and regulations.
• Why every police state needs wars and crises to justify its existence.
• Why our leaders know personal privacy must be erased.
• How lies and carefully planned "disinformation" are used against you every day.
• And why you must and will be disarmed if the U.S. isn't turned from its dangerous path.
Finally, you'll learn how you can help turn America from its dangerous course.
Each chapter is followed by a point-by-point summary you can use as a handout, as part of a slide-show presentation, or as notes for a debate or essay.
This is a book to share with fellow patriots who already understand. This is a book to share with your doubting friends, relatives, and neighbors -- who need to understand. This is a book to keep on your own shelves for intellectual ammo.
This is a book that can help save America -- if anything can.
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By Larry Burkett
At one time Americans valued hard work, ethics, and education. Today, many of these values seemed to have been replaced by the pursuit of easy money and materialism. In this book, Larry Burkett tells readers not only why we face this problem, but how to solve it--and how to recapture the lost American Dream. . . FROM THE PUBLISHER. The American Dream. Our founding fathers envisioned it as one of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as well as freedom of religion, freedom from the oppression of government, and the freedom to build a better future for one's family. . Their "dream" has been replaced by one based on rampant materialism funded by excess debt and accumulation of wealth by means other than hard work and savings. . There is no doubt that our country is preoccuppied with material well-being, but lest we think that the problem is solely economic, we must look deeper. Documenting historical changes in the American Dream, Larry Burkett demonstrates clearly that the problems we face are not related exclusively to the debt and deficit. The debt, he says, is merely a symptom of a much greater issue - the deteriorating value system of our nation, a decline that began during World War I with the importation of "amoral" values from the European communities. . Government regulations, special interest groups, weakened work ethics - all have played a part in bringing us to where we are today. But it's not too late to transform the American Dream back into something worthwhile. That is why Burkett not only describes the problems we have but also shows what each of us can do to help solve those problems. Second, assuming that we don't rally together to bring about a change in "business as usual," Burkett tells you what you can do to provide for your own family once the American Dream collapses.
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“Government oppression of gun owners sends the protagonist over the edge when, thinking he is stopping a robbery, he foils a BATF raid on a friend's house. Our hero then plans a sequence of targeted assassinations of antigun politicians and government agents. As he (and various independent operators who emulate him) start making it very hard to be a jackbooted thug, a dedicated FBI agent (the main antagonist) races to discover the protagonist's identity and bring him to 'justice.”
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You may not agree with every expression or thought written by Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist and syndicated journalist Vin Suprynowicz, but if you are a libertarian or a true conservative (and/or constitutionalist), you will cheer and applaud his astonishing, eye-opening new book, "The Ballad of Carl Drega: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1994 to 2001."
But I warn you, if you are a bed-wetting, bleeding-heart liberal with a penchant for statism, socialism, collectivism, authoritarianism, welfarism or any of the associated modern "isms" – beware!
Yes, the uncompromising stance of Suprynowicz in his indefatigable pursuit of freedom will inflame the minds of those who worship omnipotent government and the State at the expense of individual freedom – inflame them to catalystic internal combustion.
We have been totally fucked by the machine
Hell NO!
If Ron Paul wanted to raise taxes and Socialize Medicine we would tar & feather him, toss him in the Boston Harbor, and send him to Mars in a UFO with Dennis Kucinich!
Member #43 of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty
Smallest Political Quiz
Judge Napolitano on Ron Paul
Constitutional Republic
A Republic If You Can Keep It
Ron Paul in 1988
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
-Mark Twain
9/11 Commission report. (Please lend it to Rudy after you finish it.)
"Dying To Win" by Robert Pape
"Overthrow" by Stephen Kinzer
"The Constitution in Exile" by Andrew Napolitano
DRAFT JUSTIN AMASH 2020
http://www.DraftAmash.com
Fortunately he doesn't want to do any of that. I just feel that at this point in history the survival of the human species is in peril because of U.S. foreign policy, so policies that affect only the 5% of the population that lives in this country I would be able to overlook in order to save humanity from extinction. Again, fortunately in supporting Ron Paul I don't have to make that choice. He is the greatest candidate for president in modern American history, to say the least.
Anything by Ayn Rand
The Age of Turbulence- Alan Greenspan (trust me it's good)
Bastiat had some very good things to say, and most of his works are available free at http://bastiat.org/
"Government" Is probably my favorite Bastiat essay. A short quote,
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Thomas Paine's Personal letters are always fun to read.
"A thousand years hence (for I must indulge a few thoughts), perhaps in less, America may be what Europe now is. The innocence of her character, that won the hearts of all nations in her favor, may sound like a romance and her inimitable virtue as if it had never been. The ruin of that liberty which thousands bled for or struggled to obtain may just furnish materials for a village tale or extort a sigh from rustic sensibility, whilst the fashionable of that day, enveloped in dissipation, shall deride the principle and deny the fact.
When we contemplate the fall of empires and the extinction of the nations of the Ancient World, we see but little to excite our regret than the mouldering ruins of pompous palaces, magnificent museums, lofty pyramids and walls and towers of the most costly workmanship; but when the empire of America shall fall, the subject for contemplative sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling brass and marble can inspire. It will not then be said, here stood a temple of vast antiquity; here rose a babel of invisible height; or there a palace of sumptuous extravagance; but here, Ah, painful thought! the noblest work of human wisdom, the grandest scene of human glory, the fair cause of Freedom rose and fell. Read this, and then ask if I forget America." - Thomas Paine
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins is a first hand account of how our foreign policy works to enslave other nations to the will of our corporations through debt and murder.
The Fountainhead --Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
Anthem -- Ayn Rand
Good fiction to compliment your Ron Paul lifestyle!
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families." --Margaret Thatcher
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."--Margaret Thatcher
Imperial Hubris - Michael Scheuer
The Case Against the Fed - Murray Rothbard
The Quest for Cosmic Justice - Thomas Sowell
The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
If you can't convince someone to read a particular book, at least get them to read this from RP.
Ron Paul's best political writing? (link)
"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
-Robert A. Heinlein
Just out of curiosity am I the only one that can't stand Ayn Rand's writing? I understood the point she was trying to make and almost all of the ideas were brilliant, but I couldn't help feeling that it read like a Stephen Segal movie. I don't know, I guess I just prefer reading the idea's without the pages devoted to Dagny Taggart sleeping with every guy in the book.
I really love The Fountainhead. I like the story because it shows her ideas--and ideals--applied to real life. I think her philosophies interwoven with a work of fiction make them easier to understand.
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families." --Margaret Thatcher
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."--Margaret Thatcher
Best single book. See my signature for more suggestions.
For monetary policy see works on "free banking" by Hayek (Denationalization of Money, etc.), Selgin, White, Dowd, et al.
My review of the For Liberty documentary:
digg.com/d315eji
(please Digg and post comments on the HuffPost site)
"This political train-wreck Republicans face can largely be traced to Bush’s philosophical metamorphosis from a traditional, non-interventionist conservative to the neoconservatives’ exemplar of a 'War President', and his positioning of the Republicans as the 'War Party'."
Nicholas Sanchez on Bush's legacy, September 30, 2007.
I haven't read the Fountainhead, just Atlas Shrugged. I'll have to check that one out.
The Ayn Rand Lexicon
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
A Foreign Policy of Freedom- Ron Paul
A Republic, Not an Empire- Pat Buchanan
Where the Right Went Wrong- Pat Buchanan
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