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Tom G. Palmer Quotes

American - Educator | 1956 - 1

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 Now Duty Reason Civic

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Political Questions Important Group

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

Born Right Individual Obligation Who

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.

Free Name Questions White First

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Government Become Ticket Your Census

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

Life America Wild Idea No Idea Most

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.

Process Problem Trying Belief Mental

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

Small Survival Cooperation Human Nor

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Us Been Influenced Those Around

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Differences Rights Normal Different

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.

Children Differences Difference Well

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

Children Choices Responsible Because

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