P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

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

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

Libertarians are my most intense enemies

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

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

And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

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

Libertarianism is on its way!

I am more of a constitutionalist libertarian.

The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly principled and rigorous in their logic.

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

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

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'm a bit of a Libertarian.

I have been a Ron Paul 'R3VOLutionary' longer than most 'R3VOLutionaries' have been alive!

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

American ideology is anti government. There is a streak of libertarianism on both conservatives and liberals.

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.

The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages. You can disagree with them, or with Coolidge or Reagan or Friedrich Hayek or Milton Friedman or George Will, but to dismiss them as nothing more than mouthpieces of the wealthy and big business is to indulge in [a] sort of anti-intellectualism…

Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest on absolutism and deny relativism.