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

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply side conservatives, debt hawks. The conservative and Republican base is not monolithic. It has subsets that he seems to be appealing to all of them.

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

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.

It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion.

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

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.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

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.

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.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

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.

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Libertarians are conservatives who still get high.

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

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.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.