Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as…

I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's…

— Neil Peart

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

— Arthur Schnitzler

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

— Ayn Rand

A libertarian is a conservative who got mugged by his government.

— Anonymous

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we…

— Martin Luther

“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door, put T-shirts…

— Jane Mayer

Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly…

— Gary Johnson

“Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.”

— A.E. Samaan

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

— Walter E. Williams

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

— Richard Dawkins

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

— Marcus Aurelius

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

— Frederic Bastiat

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.

— Steven T. Byington