#libertarian

The real boneheads are the libertarians. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#real

My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#because #benefits #fascism #friends #getting

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#always #been #else #everybody #everybody else

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. ↗

— John Murray

#field #i #independent #libertarian #lot

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#cannot #circumstances #consent #created #imposed

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them. ↗

— Harry Browne

#cause #government #ideas #irresponsible #libertarian

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word. ↗

— John Stossel

#libertarian #terrible #word

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#i #leanings #libertarian #some #strong

Libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently probusiness political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom. Whatever we may think of libertarianism as a set of ideas, practically speaking, it is a doctrine that owes its visibility to the obvious charms it holds for the wealthy and the powerful. The reason we have so many well-funded libertarians in American these days is not because libertarianism suddenly acquired an enormous grassroots following, but because it appeals to those who are able to fund ideas. Like social Darwinism and Christian Science before it, libertarianism flatters the successful and rationalizes their core beliefs about the world. They warm to the libertarian idea that taxation is theft because they themselves don’t like to pay taxes. They fancy the libertarian notion that regulation is communist because they themselves find regulation intrusive and annoying. Libertarianism is a politics born to be subsidized. In the “free market of ideas,” it is a sure winner. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#freedom

The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous. ↗

— Jeffrey Tucker

#mises-institute #tucker #dreams