Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.”… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye,… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Well, mutual aid is a very critical and important thing. For a while, I was saying libertarians have no souls, but I… — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
“Government, if it has any purpose at all (and many libertarians doubt it does), should be restricted to the protection of its… — Brian Doherty Copy Share Image
Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of… — Alan Grayson Copy Share Image
The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“The only government tolerated by libertarians is one that exercises only retaliatory use of force on anyone who initiates the use of… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
There are libertarians who are survivalists, who live in the middle of nowhere and who are ready for the world to end.… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference.… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
People think that libertarians are probably greedy and anti-social, and I'm sure some of them are. But the nice thing about it… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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