"The function of government is to provide you……" — L. Neil Smith
"The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline."
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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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More Function Quotes
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
— Dave Barry
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
— Arnold Bennett
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
— David Bohm
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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