Robert Taft and Ron Paul
Speech on the North Atlantic Treaty, by Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-OH)
Senator Robert Taft was son of President/Chief Justice of the United States William Howard Taft. He was Known as “Mr. Republican,” and was leader of the post-WWI and WWII non-interventionist populist foreign and domestic policy opposition to FDR’s New Deal and Harry Truman’s Fair Deal. They were consistently non-interventionist and opposed entering World War II, a position exemplified by the America First Committee. Later, most opposed U.S. entry into NATO and intervention in the Korean War. In addition to being staunch opponents of war and militarism, the Old Right populists of the postwar period had a rugged and near-libertarian honesty in domestic affairs as well.
He was mentor and role model for Congressman Ron Paul.
In his book, A Foreign Policy for Americans, Taft stated that “Fundamentally, I believe the ultimate purpose of our foreign policy must be to protect the liberty of the people of the United States. The American Revolution was fought to establish a nation ‘conceived in liberty.’ That liberty has been defended in many wars since that day. That liberty has enabled our people to increase steadily their material welfare and their spiritual freedom.”
A Foreign Policy for Americans, by Robert Taft
https://cdn.mises.org/A%20Foreign%20Policy%20for%20Americans_2.pdf
Ron Paul remains our defender of the republic, a statesman of unblemished character and principled judgment. The twelve-term congressman has for decades courageously spoken out for an American foreign policy based upon a strong national defense of the essential core principles of liberty and justice as established by the Framers, a defense of the territorial integrity of the United States and its national borders.
Both Taft and Paul knew that Peace, prudential diplomacy, free international trade and commerce, and the free exchange of ideas are the key elements to a constitutional foreign policy.
Ron Paul remains first and foremost a realist. America is financially bankrupt due to decades of reckless, irresponsible fiscal and monetary policies pursued by the Fed, the Congress, and the Executive branch of the state. Paul’s measured conservative program of strategic disengagement from the unconstitutional pre-emptive wars of the past two decades, coupled with a serious analytical reassessment of the imperial over-reach of 900 military bases in 130 nations, is the only wise course dictated by this un
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