Neil Peart Quotes

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

Libertarianism is on its way!

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.

I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

I am more of a constitutionalist libertarian.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.

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

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation.

Libertarians are my most intense enemies

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim — and if they used both halves of their brains — then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.

... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

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.