Difference between Democrats, Republicans and libertarians

as of late i've been reading a book; ok, i'm listening to the audio version, but still; and it's very intriguing.  Of course I don't believe in everything aspoused in the book; as I would never presume to speak for another person and never presume to allow another person to speak for me, but I found one passage in particular which painted the difference between Democrats, Republicans and libertarians quite well:

Murray N. Rothbard

from;

For A New Liberty:

"Sometimes it seems that the beau ideal of many conservatives,

as well as of many liberals, is to put everyone into a cage

and coerce him into doing what the conservatives or liberals

believe to be the moral thing. They would of course be differently

styled cages, but they would be cages just the same. The

conservative would ban illicit sex, drugs, gambling, and impiety,

and coerce everyone to act according to his version of

moral and religious behavior. The liberal would ban films of

violence, unesthetic advertising, football, and racial discrimination,

and, at the extreme, place everyone in a “Skinner box”

to be run by a supposedly benevolent liberal dictator. But the

effect would be the same: to reduce everyone to a subhuman

level and to deprive everyone of the most precious part of his

or her humanity—the freedom to choose.

The irony, of course, is that by forcing men to be “moral”—

i.e., to act morally—the conservative or liberal jailkeepers

would in reality deprive men of the very possibility of being

moral. The concept of “morality” makes no sense unless the

moral act is freely chosen. Suppose, for example, that someone

is a devout Muslim who is anxious to have as many people as

possible bow to Mecca three times a day; to him let us suppose

this is the highest moral act. But if he wields coercion to force

everyone to bow to Mecca, he is thereby depriving everyone

of the opportunity to be moral—to choose freely to bow to

Mecca. Coercion deprives a man of the freedom to choose and,

therefore, of the possibility of choosing morally.

The libertarian, in contrast to so many conservatives and

liberals, does not want to place man in any cage. What he

wants for everyone is freedom, the freedom to act morally or

immorally, as each man shall decide."