Creatures Quote by L. Neil Smith

“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 moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.”

L. Neil Smith

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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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Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,…

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We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect…

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Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

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Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with…

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

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