America Quotes by L. Neil Smith

8 America quotes by L. Neil Smith

Smith’s eight lines blend fiction‑inspired critique with libertarian ideals, offering a concise taste of his skeptical view of the nation.

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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a…

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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…

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For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last…

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I do know enough about economics - and so do you - to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and…

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America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws. While drugs were consumed by large numbers of people — the…

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Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage…

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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what…

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Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores.…

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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…

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Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

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I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

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Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

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I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean…

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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any…

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Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see…

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Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a…

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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or…

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“...occasionally I like carrying raw steel to remind myself of an important lesson. The blade's an extension of the hand, the agent--no pun intended--of…

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Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the…

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Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to…

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If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians.…

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You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have…

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