Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
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… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“...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… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
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… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
