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"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."
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"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."
"The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs " the word is not too extreme " to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us."
"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!"
"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
"If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence."
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"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves."
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
"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."
"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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