Because Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am.

— Anonymous

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

— Howard Stern

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.

— Jacob Weisberg

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern…

— Bryan Caplan

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 cities safe,…

— Harry Browne

The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely…

— Murray Rothbard

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

— Murray Bookchin

When I'm asked where libertarians fit on the left-right spectrum, I say we don't. We're above the line.

— Marshall Fritz

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

— Clint Eastwood

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the…

— Drew Carey

We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public;…

— Murray Rothbard

“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure…

— Murray Bookchin