"The first thing you need to know, in……" — L. Neil Smith
"The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented."
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55 Quotes by L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith has 55 quotes on this site.
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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against…
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Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is…
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals…
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What…
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Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When…
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its…
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to…
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft,…
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Government is waging war against the people.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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