L. Neil Smith Quotes - Page 3

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• Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.

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  Mistake, Government, People

  "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 13, 2010.

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• For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

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  Country, Jobs, Mistake

  "Tastes Like Chicken". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 28, 2010.

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• Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.

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  Teacher, Kids, Exercise

  "Murder by Gun Control". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 31, 2000.

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• I do know enough about economics - and so do you - to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and his ravenous parasitic hordes, supposedly designed to 'repair' America's broken economy, reveals him to be unimaginably stupid, gibberingly insane, or simply the biggest, most barefaced criminal thug ever to occupy the White House. And that's saying a lot.

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  Stupid, Thug, White

  "A Little Austrian Flea". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 01, 2009.

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• One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

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  Police, Nazi, Authority

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• Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

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  Equality, Law, Each Day

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• There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

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  Ambitious, Selfless, Massachusetts

  "Pursuing Invariably the Same Object". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 18, 2010.

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• The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

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  Successful, Light, Sight

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• Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.

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  Real, Ignorance, Self

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

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  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

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  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

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  Wise, Country, Jobs

  "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. July 11, 2010.

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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 way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

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  War, Lying, Reality

  "Empire of Lies" by L. Neil Smith, www.ncc-1776.org. June 22, 2003.

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• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

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  Children, People, Drug

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". Remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

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  Government, Needs, Disease

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• Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.

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  Lying, Communication, Government

  "Tactical Reflections" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org.

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

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  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

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  States, Collectives, Incapable

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “Forge of the Elders”, p.194, Baen Books

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

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  Hate, Lying, World

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• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

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  Party, Libertarian, Beloved

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• If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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  Nice, Government, Jeans

  "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. July 11, 2010.

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• I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean members of the general freedom movement - will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.

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  Team, Mean, Two

  "Pushing Rope". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 15, 2009.

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• I'm tired of being considered property.

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  Tired, I'm Tired, Property

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• If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

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  People, Brain, Liberty

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

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  Groups, Sometimes, Individual

  "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. May 02, 2010.

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