Best L. Neil Smith Quotes
- It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. Annihilation
- As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. Amendment
- [N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with… Able
- Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent… Achieved
- And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we… Afraid
- Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and… Armed
- I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused,… Argument
- What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution. Accomplish
- Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his… Armed
- Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and… All
- What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America… America
- I'm as radical as libertarians come. Inspirational
- I'm tired of living in a police state. Living
- Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. Emancipated
- 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… Admit
- Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage! Cause
- I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights… Amendment
- We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that… Act
- Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead. Beloved
- People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. Act
- City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. Abolish
- The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. Attacked
- This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. Asteroid
- We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do… Buy
- Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and… Abolish