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I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.
When I'm asked where libertarians fit on the left-right spectrum, I say we don't. We're above the line.
I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.
"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?
I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.
I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.
I want people to know we throw real parties. We don't need more boring libertarian or conservative conferences.
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.
I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before.
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.
One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian.
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.