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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

If you do not like the past, change it.