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Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, circumstances, people, rightness

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.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, children

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.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, common sense, reason, world, good, good luck

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a...

Quote by Camille Paglia about liberty, democracy, thinking, state, use

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, justice

Rather, it is a political theory that emerged in response to the growth of unlimited state power; libertarianism draws its strength from a powerful fusion of a normative theory about the moral and political sources and limits of obligations and a...

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics, limits, order, state, moral, power

What distinguishes libertarianism from other views of political morality is principally its theory of enforceable obligations.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics, morality

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

Quote by Tom Clancy about liberty