Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
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
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's… — 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