The Path to Peace

-Ron Paul

This speech before the House of Representatives, March 25, 1999, is collected in A Foreign Policy of Freedom (2007).

Mr. Speaker, today I rise with gratitude to Edmund Burke and paraphrase words he first spoke 224 years ago this week. It is presently true that to restore liberty and dignity to a nation so great and distracted as ours is indeed a significant undertaking. For, judging of what we are by what we ought to be, I have persuaded myself that this body might accept this reasonable proposition.

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