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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats. -- Penn Jillette
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure. -- John Mackey
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. -- Tom G. Palmer
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources. -- Harry Browne
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, it doesn't educate our children properly. -- Harry Browne
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
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' -- Rand Paul
I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt. -- Ted Cruz
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. -- Harry Browne
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. -- Tom G. Palmer
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown. -- Murray Rothbard
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts. -- Jeremy Grantham
Libertarians are liberals who like markets. -- Will Wilkinson
Libertarians are conservatives who still get high. -- Drew Carey
Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats. -- Harry Browne
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea. -- Ron Paul
Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together. -- Emo Philips
Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more. -- Michael Badnarik
Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican' -- Dennis Prager
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. -- Murray N. Rothbard
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
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. -- Tom G. Palmer
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. -- Andre Marrou
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters. -- Richard Brookhiser
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded. -- Tom G. Palmer
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough. -- Christopher Hitchens
Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against extension of governmental encroachments. -- Henry Hazlitt
We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians. -- Hugh Downs
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 the ONLY politicians with values. -- Peter McWilliams
I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We don't have 30 million dollars. We're a people powered campaign. -- Jill Stein
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun. -- Andre Marrou
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians. -- Hugh Downs
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny. -- Michael Lind
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The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you. -- Michael Badnarik
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to 'get off my property.' News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us. -- John Scalzi
We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity. -- Mitch Kapor
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
Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult. -- David Boaz
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. -- Jim DeMint
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. -- Tom G. Palmer
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
I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there! -- Gary Johnson
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama. -- Naomi Wolf
Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. -- John Perry Barlow
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x. -- 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
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. -- Steven Pinker
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. -- Paul Ryan
Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that. -- Ben Horowitz
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 of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information. -- Evgeny Morozov
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. -- George Orwell
There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises. -- Paul Krugman
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security. -- Jeff Sessions
Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire. -- Mike Cloud
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 don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that. -- Trent Lott
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'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose. -- Murray Bookchin
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. -- Tom G. Palmer
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
If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake. -- Dave Barry
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Finally, promoting conjugal marriage need not and should not involve prohibiting any consensual relationship. For all these reasons, libertarians should favor the regulation of marriage-which is, again, practically inevitable anyway. -- Sherif Girgis
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 gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and conservative libertarians have embraced today because he loves state experimentation. -- Jeffrey Rosen
Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there! -- Alan Grayson
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron. -- Peter Thiel

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