- What a day! I am humbled and inspired, grateful and thrilled
for this vast outpouring of support.
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- On just one day, in honor of the 234th anniversary of
the Boston Tea Party, the new American revolutionaries brought in
$6.04 million, another one-day record. The average donation was $102;
we had 58,407 individual contributors, of whom an astounding 24,915
were first-time donors. And it was an entirely voluntary, self-organized,
decentralized, independent effort on the internet. Must be the "spammers"
I keep hearing about!
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- The establishment is baffled and worried, and well they
should be. They keep asking me who runs our internet fundraising
and controls our volunteers. To these top-down central planners,
a spontaneous order like our movement is science-fiction. But you
and I know it's real: as real as the American people's yearning for
freedom, peace, and prosperity, as real as all the men and women
who have sacrificed for our ideals, in the past and today.
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- And how neat to see celebrations all across the world,
with Tea Parties from France to New Zealand. This is how we can spread
the ideals of our country, through voluntary emulation, not bombs
and bribes. Of course, there were hundreds in America.
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- As I dropped in on a cheering, laughing crowd of about
600 near my home in Freeport, Texas, I noted that they call us "angry."
Well, we are the happiest, most optimistic "angry" movement
ever, and the most diverse. What unites us is a love of liberty,
and a determination to fix what is wrong with our country, from the
Fed to the IRS, from warfare to welfare. But otherwise we are a big
tent.
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- Said the local newspaper: "The elderly sat with
teens barey old enough to vote. The faces were black, Hispanic, Asian
and white. There was no fear in their voices as they spoke boldly
with each other about the way the country should be. Held close like
a deeply held secret, Paul has brought them out of the disconnect
they feel between what they know to be true and where the country
has been led."
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- Thanks also to the 500 or so who braved the blizzard
in Boston to go to Faneuil Hall. My son Rand told me what a great
time he had with you.
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- A few mornings ago on LewRockwell.com, I saw a YouTube
of a 14-year-old boy that summed up our whole movement for me. This
well-spoken young man, who could have passed in knowledge for a college
graduate, told how he heard our ideas being denounced. So he decided
to Google. He read some of my speeches, and thought, these make sense.
Then he studied US foreign policy of recent years, and came to the
conclusion that we are right. So he persuaded his father to drop
Rudy Giuliani and join our movement.
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- All over America, all over the world, we are inspiring
real change. With the wars and the spying, the spending and the taxing,
the inflation and the credit crisis, our ideas have never been more
needed. Please help me spread them <https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate>https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate in
all 50 states. Victory for liberty! That is our goal, and nothing
less.
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- Sincerely,
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- Ron Paul
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