Census Quote by Tom G. Palmer

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

— Tom G. Palmer

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

— Tom G. Palmer

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of…

— Tom G. Palmer

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

— Tom G. Palmer

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

— Tom G. Palmer

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then…

— Tom G. Palmer

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

— Tom G. Palmer

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

— Tom G. Palmer

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

— Tom G. Palmer

At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for…

— Tom G. Palmer

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or…

— Tom G. Palmer

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

— Tom G. Palmer