Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. L. Neil Smith More Quotes by L. Neil Smith More Quotes From L. Neil Smith Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. L. Neil Smith seacivilizationlying I'm tired of being considered property. L. Neil Smith im-tiredpropertytired City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. L. Neil Smith public-healthgovernmentcities This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. L. Neil Smith asteroidsdinosaursyears A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim. L. Neil Smith libertyprinciplesbelieve Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. L. Neil Smith second-amendmentgunpeople 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 warlyingreality 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 presidentialwinningjobs Government is waging war against the people. L. Neil Smith governmentwarpeople I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right. L. Neil Smith privilegeexistencegovernment Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage! L. Neil Smith garbagepoliticsgun 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 intelligentsummermen Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda. L. Neil Smith governmentlyingschool Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not. L. Neil Smith selfrightspeople Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him. L. Neil Smith guysouldog There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether. L. Neil Smith differencesbigslaw Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization. L. Neil Smith popularitydoecivilization As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio. L. Neil Smith alsradiogiving I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong. L. Neil Smith countryhandsreality 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. L. Neil Smith mistakejobscountry
