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I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

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.

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.

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

In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.

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 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 is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

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'.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

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

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.

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.

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

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.