Libertarian Quotes
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When I called people and said, 'Hey! Do you want to work for the president?' they usually said yes. I had 2 people say no. One person said no because they were a Republican; one person said no because they're a Libertarian.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James Madison - father of the Constitution. Labels change and perhaps in the old tradition I would be considered one of the original Whigs. The new title I would wear today is that of Conservative, though in its original connotation the term Liberal fits me better than the original meaning of the word Conservative.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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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.
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Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
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Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.
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The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
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I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.
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All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
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There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
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Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
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Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
