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.

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

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.