A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
L. Neil Smith

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
L. Neil Smith

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
L. Neil Smith

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
L. Neil Smith

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
L. Neil Smith

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
L. Neil Smith

Government is waging war against the people.
L. Neil Smith

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
L. Neil Smith

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
L. Neil Smith

I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith


I'm tired of being considered property.
L. Neil Smith

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 under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
L. Neil Smith

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
L. Neil Smith

I'm tired of living in a police state.
L. Neil Smith

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
L. Neil Smith

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
L. Neil Smith

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
L. Neil Smith

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
L. Neil Smith

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
L. Neil Smith

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
L. Neil Smith