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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
"Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance."
"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves."
"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."
"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."
"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."
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."
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