Tom G. Palmer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.”

“What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.”

“Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.”

“Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.”

“The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.”

“Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.”

“Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.”

“Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.”

“But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.”

“To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.”