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Tom G. Palmer

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

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Donna Grant

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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Donna Grant

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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Donna Grant

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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Donna Grant

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Donna Grant

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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Donna Grant

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

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Tom G. Palmer
"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."

Government

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

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

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Tom G. Palmer
"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."

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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."

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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 both left and right believe."

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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."

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Tom G. Palmer
"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."

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Tom G. Palmer
"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."

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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 be violated."

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