Tom G. Palmer Quotes

At George Mason University I Saw Hoppe Present A Lecture In Which He Claimed That Ludwig Von Mises Had Set The Intellectual Foundation For Not Only Economics, But For Ethics, Geometry, And Optics, As Well. This Bizarre Claim Turned A Serious Scholar And Profound Thinker Into A Comical Cult Figure, A Sort Of Euro Kim Il Sung.

It Is Obvious That Different Individuals Require Different Things To Live Good, Healthy, And Virtuous Lives.

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.

Guardians Are Necessary For Children And Abnormal Adults, Because They Cannot Make Responsible Choices For Themselves.

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.

Abstraction Is A Mental Process We Use When Trying To Discern What Is Essential Or Relevant To A Problem; It Does Not Require A Belief In Abstract Entities.

Most Europeans Have No Idea How Wild Life Can Be In North America.

To Repeat, Communitarians Maintain That We Are Constituted As Persons By Our Particular Obligations, And Therefore Those Obligations Cannot Be A Matter Of Choice.

[l]et Me Point Out That Libertarians Defend A Tradition Of Liberty That Is The Fruit Of Thousands Of Years Of Human History.

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.

Obligations May Be Universal Or Particular.