Ron Paul the best
Paul has been criticized at times for his voting record, including being against all government spending not explicitly authorized by the US Constitution, including Congressional Gold Medals. He was the only dissenting vote against awarding Rosa Parks and Mother Theresa the Congressional Gold Medal; According to Texas Monthly, when criticized for voting against the medal for Parks, he challenged his colleagues to personally contribute $100 to mint the medal. No one did. At the time, Paul observed, "It's easier to be generous with other people's money."
In a speech on June 25, 2003, criticizing awarding Tony Blair a Gold Medal, Paul said, "[F]orcing the American people to pay tens of thousands of dollars to give a gold medal to a foreign leader is immoral and unconstitutional. I will continue in my uncompromising opposition to appropriations not authorized within the enumerated powers of the Constitution- a Constitution that each member of Congress swore to uphold. ... [A]t least in the past we have awarded them to great humanitarians and leaders like Mother Theresa, President Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and others. ... These awards normally go to deserving individuals, which is why I have many times offered to contribute $100 of my own money, to be matched by other members, to finance these medals."[4] Texas Monthly awarded him the "Bum Steer" award for voting against a congressional honor for cartoonist Charles Schulz.
The Ron Paul FREEDOM PRINCIPLES
Rights belong to individuals, not groups.
Property should be owned by people, not government.
All voluntary associations should be permissible -- economic and social.
The government's monetary role is to maintain the integrity of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud.
Government exists to protect liberty, not to redistribute wealth or to grant special privileges.
The lives and actions of people are their own responsibility, not the government's.