By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“The genius of free human beings is that, given responsibility, they join together to take care of each other—to be their brothers’… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“While these tax cuts starved the government, George Mason also belittled its role philosophically. A star on its faculty was James Buchanan,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“If something is wrong for you or me, it is also wrong for the cop, the soldier, the mayor, the governor, the… — Lew Rockwell Copy Share Image
For years we've been told by secretive power hoarders we need to compromise some of our hot freedom for security. Civil Libertarians… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good… — Hugh Downs 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything… — Scott Banister Copy Share Image
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
One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of… — Jonah Goldberg 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
![“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.” quote by Ilana Mercer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/ilana-mercer-6995_business_by-going-on-the-defensive-libertarians-a_768647.jpg)
![“Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.” quote by Richard Brookhiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/richard-brookhiser-32316_believer_libertarians-are-believers-in-small-gove_2275573.jpg)
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![“What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand…” quote by Ralph Raico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/ralph-raico-39769_arrangements_what-is-the-free-market-well-the-free-ma_3135854.jpg)
