L. Neil Smith quotes - page 2

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong - and demonstrably more destructive - for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost. (L. Neil Smith)
If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
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Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
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There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.
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Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.
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We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
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The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual - and his rights - as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.
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Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.
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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him.
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Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from. (L. Neil Smith)
As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.
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A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities - places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations - what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.
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Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective - economic value, anyway - while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. (L. Neil Smith)
Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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Government is waging war against the people.
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