David Boaz
David Boaz
David Boazis the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank...
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Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.
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Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.
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The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.
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In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.
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Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.
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Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.
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The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.
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There's a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It's more logical that the money should follow the people.
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Half the stories in every newspaper should be headlined 'Stop me before I legislate again
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George Mason is classified as a school where there are some libertarian professors, and that makes it somewhat unusual. There are a lot of colleges not welcoming to libertarians and conservatives.
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The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers
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Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that's being talked about here, I don't know if there will ever have been a president who increased spending as fast as this one did.
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The main argument we would make is that marriage law has always been left to the states.
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The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you've had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you've also had increases in the number of unwed mothers, increases in crime.