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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. -- Noam Chomsky
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure. -- John Mackey
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. -- Drew Carey
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. -- Harry Browne
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist. -- Neil Peart
I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. -- Gary Oldman
I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty. -- Penn Jillette
The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral. -- Michael Badnarik
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 Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. -- Drew Carey
That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas. -- Gary Johnson
It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race. -- John Murray
The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy. -- Michael Badnarik
I'm a bit of a Libertarian. -- Vince Flynn
Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone -- Clint Eastwood
The Libertarian Party is a shameful party -- Dennis Prager
I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style. -- Roger Stone
Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead. -- L. Neil Smith
I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all. -- Big Boi
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. -- Berkeley Breathed
I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't. -- Glenn Danzig
The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party. -- Walter E. Williams
The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am. -- Joe Lhota
I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. -- Michael Badnarik
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. -- John McCain
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere. -- Clint Eastwood
The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities. -- Bob Barr
Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media. -- Ralph Nader
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship. -- Michael Badnarik
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. -- Federica Montseny
We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States - Governor Gary Johnson. -- Scott Boman
I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space. -- Peter Diamandis
Libertarian presidential candidate AndrÃ© Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value. -- George Will
I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine. -- Gary Johnson
It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania. -- Justin Raimondo
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy. -- George Carlin
I am running for president because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal government. only a Libertarian is going to set you free. -- Harry Browne
I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth. -- Gary Johnson
I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation. -- Josh Mandel
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled. -- Jerry Pournelle
Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties. -- Gary Johnson
Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment. -- Jan C. Ting
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan
The power to tax is the power to destroy. -- John Marshall
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. -- Milton Friedman
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. -- Edward R. Murrow
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. -- Milton Friedman
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. -- Bertrand Russell
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. -- John Bolton
You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican. -- Penn Jillette
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes. -- Alexander Haig
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. -- Ludwig von Mises
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. -- H. L. Mencken
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. -- Thomas Paine
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. -- George Mason
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. -- Ayn Rand
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. -- Milton Friedman
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. -- Aldous Huxley
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. -- Penn Jillette
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
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. -- George MacDonald
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated. -- Tyler Cowen
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 as simple as that. -- Neil Peart
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill
Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition. -- Robert Nozick
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. -- Noam Chomsky
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. -- Thomas Sowell
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives. -- David Harsanyi
If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place. -- Murray Rothbard
I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform. -- Alan Greenspan
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. -- Harry Browne
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. -- Noam Chomsky
There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress. -- Stephen Rodrick
I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. -- Clint Eastwood
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions. -- John Ray
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. -- Milton Friedman
I am a limited-government libertarian. -- Milton Friedman
There will be a libertarian president -- Joe Trippi
I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word. -- John Stossel
I believe in a libertarian communist society. -- Murray Bookchin
I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian. -- Peter Thiel
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. -- Clarence Thomas
Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings, -- Tom Selleck
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard. -- John Bolton
I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian. -- William Safire
There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing, -- Stewart Baker
I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas. -- Jim DeMint
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. -- Joel Salatin
I'm not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics -- Robert Sarvis
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical." -- Joel Salatin
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist. -- Stephan Kinsella
I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal. -- Charles Koch
Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best. -- Glenn Reynolds
A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted. -- Jack Abramoff
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state. -- Patri Friedman
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms. -- Hans Morgenthau
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value. -- Richard Grossman
Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one. -- Jonah Goldberg
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. -- Bernard Bailyn
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs. -- Al Seckel
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men. -- Ludwig von Mises
I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. -- Rick Santorum
What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. -- Murray Rothbard
I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know. -- Kurt Russell
I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing. -- Clint Eastwood
I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed. -- Drew Carey
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation. -- Michel Onfray
I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian. -- Dave Barry
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. -- Richard Allen Epstein
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility. -- Michael Shermer
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. -- Rupert Murdoch
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon. -- Edward Abbey
My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism. -- Ann Coulter
The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community. -- David Boaz
I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree. -- Ron Paul
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties. -- Todd Young

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