L. Neil Smith Quotes

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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 to…
• Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than…
• People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically…
• Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing…
• Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry…
• It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that,…
• As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants…
• 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…
• Government is waging war against the people.
• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
• I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member…
• I'm tired of being considered property.
• Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
• Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a…
• The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras…
• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldnt find a place for their dubious talents…
• The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
• Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon…

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