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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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Asa Don Brown

"If one does not interfere in the obtained worldly life, then worldly life will run straight forward & smoothly. But one keeps interfering in the obtained worldly life. From the moment he wakes up, he interferes. If there is no interference in the unfolding circumstances one has obtained, then God's control will prevail, but by interfering one takes over the control himself."

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Asa Don Brown

"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."

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Asa Don Brown

"I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man."

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Asa Don Brown

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."

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Asa Don Brown

"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."

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Asa Don Brown

"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."

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Asa Don Brown

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

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Asa Don Brown

"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."

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Asa Don Brown

"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."

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Asa Don Brown

"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."

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

Family

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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."

Circumstance

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Tom G. Palmer
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."

Survival

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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."

Choice

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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."

Equality

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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 good."

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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
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"

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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."

Government

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