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.

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

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.

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

Freedom is the most precious property

If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?

The time some people spend worrying and crying about their problems is sometimes more than enough to find some effective solutions to them.

What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.