Quotes about libertarian (16 Quotes)



    Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.

    It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.





    A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man.... The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.

    My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.


    A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

    Libertarian presidential candidate Andre Marrous idea is that 'government power is opposed to individual liberty.' Must we still debate such sophomoric notions... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.


    The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

    I think if you took a secret ballot in the Senate and House, you'd get a majority of Republicans joining on to those libertarian concerns. But the majority of Republicans in both houses see themselves more as field soldiers in the president's army than as independent actors in an independent branch of government. ... That group is very reluctant to challenge their president and to do so in a way that gives Democrats a political issue.





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