#libertarian

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

— Daniel Okrent

#conservative #conventional #i #i think #libertarian

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

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#freedom #gold #libertarianism #freedom

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#libertarian #liberty #power #community

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

I'm a bit of a Libertarian. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#i #libertarian

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. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#children #concerned #house #i #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. ↗

— Harry Browne

#cause #government #ideas #irresponsible #libertarian