Libertarian Quotes

"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 like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

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.

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.

Brooks clearly lines up on the conservative side, but like Safire, he`s a libertarian conservative, not an evangelical Christian.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

But I`m very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don`t believe in imposing values upon people.

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.