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Tom G. Palmer has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not…
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Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as…
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But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as…
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Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
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The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white…
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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is…
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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter…
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At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual…
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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of…
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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty…
— Gordon Brown
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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is…
— Tom G. Palmer
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I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you…
— Ilka Chase
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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting…
— Bob Black
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There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a…
— Oriana Fallaci
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I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.
— Ty Burr
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There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real…
— Tim Heidecker
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
— Norman Douglas
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
— John Adams
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain de Botton
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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to…
— Robert Darnton
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