Libertarian Quotes

The real boneheads are the libertarians. - Peter Brimelow

The primary seat belt bill has something for everyone. If you are a humanitarian, you can feel good about saving upwards of 40 lives and preventing more than 400 injuries on an annual basis. If you are a fiscal conservative, you can feel good knowing this bill does not spend one single dime out of the state's general fund. If you are libertarian in nature, you can feel good about the fact that fewer deaths and injuries means less infringement on the health care system supported by tax payers. - Gail Weinholzer

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. - Nick Nuessle

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. - Rachel Maddow

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. - Jim DeMint

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

Rising tide of libertarianism in the GOP . . . His proposals for the privatization of non-instructional school services, stringent performance reviews of state programs and the consolidation or elimination of state agencies were quoted chapter and verse from the 'Citizen's Budget' crafted last year by Carl DeMaio, the resident guru for government reinvention at the Reason Foundation. - Mike Davis

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

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

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