The real boneheads are the libertarians.

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

“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.…

— Tony Judt

Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.

— Emo Philips

As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many…

— Evgeny Morozov

In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful,…

— Scott Banister

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or…

— L. Neil Smith

Libertarians are liberals who like markets.

— Will Wilkinson

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

— Trent Lott

“Libertarianism used to have a robust left wing as well. Both disliked government. Both were driven by a fantastically nostalgic conviction that a country…

— Kurt Andersen

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

— Roger Wicker

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians.…

— L. Neil Smith

“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your…

— Michael Shermer

Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it.…

— Clint Eastwood

“If something is wrong for you or me, it is also wrong for the cop, the soldier, the mayor, the governor, the general, the…

— Lew Rockwell

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes…

— Peter Thiel