… is from page 20 of the late Brian Doherty’s great 2007 book, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement:
For all its occasionally zany radicalism, libertarianism is not a utopian ideology. More than any other set of political ideas, it recognizes and is based on the limits that economic reality and human nature place on attempts to use the state to accomplish grand goals.


For all its occasionally zany radicalism, libertarianism is not a utopian ideology. More than any other set of political ideas, it recognizes and is based on the limits that economic reality and human nature place on attempts to use the state to accomplish grand goals.
