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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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Personal Development
"The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it."
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Personal Development
"Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered."
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Personal Development
"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
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Personal Development
"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
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Personal Development
"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"Empire and liberty."
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Personal Development
"Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces."
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"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
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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 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."
Documentation
"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."
Equality
"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."
Choice
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
Authority
"Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded."
Family
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
Survival
"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."
Medical
"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."
Choice
"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
Circumstance
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