What Ron Paul’s Grandmother Told Him About War #Liberty #History #war

The people don't start the wars, the governments do. >> Your grandmother trusted that piece of land more than cash because, you know, the family had lived through that German inflation. Is Is that where this all began for you? Not an Not an economics book, but as a family memory? >> No, they came way after I got interested in it and then I would I would be talking to them and because I thought I remember she she must have been an interesting person and we we were crowded in our house and I slept next door at her house. But the subject came up because my family had people in the military. We had one distant cousin that was in a German prison camp and we had cousins that lived in Germany and we were all from a from a Lutheran family. So we were taught to pray for these people that were very very much involved. This was Finally, in the middle of I was under 10 because that was before when the war was still going on, I said it started bothering me. I suddenly I started understanding a little thing about Christianity. And I said, "Well, maybe Christian nations would never have a war against other." So they reminded me, "Germany is a Christian nation." You know, this sort of thing. So I went to her and she knew I was disturbed, you know, about the war going on and I must have asked her, "Well, why Why does this happen? Why do they start these things?" And she said that she I remember her so clearly. She says said to me, "She says, Ronnie, the people don't start the wars, the governments do." >> Yeah. >> And that stuck with me.