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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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’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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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'.

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 free market that makes monopolies impossible.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.