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I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

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.

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

I can spend your money better than you can.

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. So, they have abandoned what - their libertarian values and instincts to embrace [Donald] Trump.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

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

In government, the scum rises to the top.