#libertarians

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly. ↗

— Harry Browne

#cities #deliver #educate #fact #government

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources. ↗

— Harry Browne

#feel #fortunate #know #less #libertarians

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. ↗

— Drew Carey

#abraham lincoln #ago #day #essentially #fit

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#assert #differences #different #fundamental #fundamental rights

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#adult #ambulance #another #argue #assistance

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#police #protection #slaves #their #want

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#business #exactly #government #i #i think

The real boneheads are the libertarians. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#real

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#conservatives #debate #libertarians #needs #party