Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

com. A native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Green Tree Pennsylvania Paul is a graduate of Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine where he earned his medical degree. It's difficult for one who loves true liberty and utterly detests the power of the state to come to Washington for a period of time and not leave a true cynic.

He served as a flight surgeon in the U. Paul is best known for his libertarian views and is a critic of American foreign domestic and monetary policies including the military–industrial complex the War on Drugs and the Federal Reserve. He worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist from the 1960s to the 1980s delivering more than 4000 babies.