"What happened in America in the 1860s was……" — L. Neil Smith
"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 in the 1770s and 1780s."
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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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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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