[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

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.

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

At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

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.