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“The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.”

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Book:Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest

“I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.”

“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.”

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Author:John Scalzi

“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.”

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Author:Bob Barr

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803