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.

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.

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.

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.