L. Neil Smith Quotes

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

Tired, Reason, Dangerous

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
L. Neil Smith

Freedom, Government, Anyone

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
L. Neil Smith

Women, Men, Problem

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

Act, Media, Mass

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
L. Neil Smith

War, Find, Free

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.
L. Neil Smith

War, Different, America

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

Fear, Stand, Talking

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

Media, Amendment, Protected

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

Friends, Dead, Party

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
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Health, Public, City

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

Collective, Incapable, Corpses

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

War, Government, Against

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

Government, Existence, However

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

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

Tired, Property, Considered

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

Government, Tired, Media

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

Tired, Living, State

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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Single, Nobody, Slave

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

Freedom, Hate, Lie

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
L. Neil Smith

Million, Planet, Strike

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
L. Neil Smith

Today, Human, Sea

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

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

Government, Death, Reason

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

Human, Effort, Race

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

Time, Truth, War

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 12, 1946

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