Frank Van Dun Quotes

• Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

  Frank Van Dun

  Learning, Way, Logic

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• I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.

  Frank Van Dun

  Book, Law, Trying

  "Argumentation Ethics and The Philosophy of Freedom". mises.org. March 13, 2009.

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• As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.

  Frank Van Dun

  Citizens, Legal System, May

  "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.

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• A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights.

  Frank Van Dun

  Rights, Feelings, Movement

  "Natural Law, Liberalism and Christianity". Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 15, no. 3, 2001.

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• An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

  Frank Van Dun

  Doe, Half, Want

  "Dyslexic Anarchists of the World–Untie1" by Stephan Kinsella, www.lewrockwell.com. January 20, 2004.

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