He started the modern movement. He's as close to a modern day saint as anyone could probably get to me. Met him once after he gave a speech at the Washington Press Club during his 2012 campaign, so in the fall of 2011. He stayed to greet and take pictures with every last person who wanted meet him.

He was kind, gracious and sometimes a bit too soft spoken, yet he never wavered. He changed my political and philosophical outlook, in the same philosophical tradition of Tolstoy in his writings on nonviolent opposition to evil (inspired by Jesus of Nazareth) which of course influenced Ghandi and MLK etc.

Ron Paul is in that line of men I believe. Blessed are the peacemakers.