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I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.
I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.
We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.
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.
I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.
The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held our nation in their grip for decades and that the only real solution to such woes is libertarianism.
My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.
The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain why you think the way you do about public education or drug laws, and why it's not as simple as being for or against something.
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.
I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.
Beloved friends and comrades ... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.
I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.
I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution's all about. I don't think they have it right as to what our history is.
I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.
As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.
I'm a registered Independent.
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.
The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to 'get off my property.' News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.
The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.
A Libertarian's just a Democrat whose vote doesn't count. Same thing.
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.
I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.
I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'
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.
Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.
We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States - Governor Gary Johnson.
I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian
Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for
individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be
protected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.
I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.
A conservative is a libertarian who has been mugged.
Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.
I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.
If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.
I'm tired of people thinking that Libertarians don't have morality- that they don't have values. that's a lot of hogwash. Libertarians are the ONLY politicians with values.
I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.
Libertarianism is "cultish," say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.
I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there!
I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.
I belong to no organized political party; I'm a Democrat
People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.
The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.
I'm a registered conservative.
The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.
Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.
The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person.
~ Merlyn
Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.
Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.
There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.
I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.
Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
When I'm asked where libertarians fit on the left-right spectrum, I say we don't. We're above the line.
I'm a political conservative.
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.
Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal
Originally, I thought Republican. Now I'm an equal opportunity politician-hater.
Bonapartist democrat."
"Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.
Let's be clear: unless I have profoundly misunderstood its position, I pretty much despise American Libertarianism. Have these people seriously looked at the problems of the world and thought, 'Hmm, what we need here is a bit more selfishness'? . . . I beg to differ.
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.
Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.
I'm a pretty serious Independent.
The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.
I belong to the Democratic Party.
I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.
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.
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.
What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism ?
Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.
[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.