Quotes by Tom G. Palmer, page 2

Tom G. Palmer - american educator

Life period: 1956

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

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

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about guvernement

The issue of the common good is related to the beliefs of communitarians regarding the personality or the separate existence of groups.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about personality, existence, common sense, good, good luck

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.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about reason, duty

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

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics, morality