[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred. L. Neil Smith More Quotes by L. Neil Smith More Quotes From L. Neil Smith Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead. L. Neil Smith libertarian beloved party 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. L. Neil Smith jeans nice government A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history. L. Neil Smith real cities civilization My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction. L. Neil Smith cabins uncles war Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death. L. Neil Smith rocks taken enemy Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States. L. Neil Smith usa war long Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about. L. Neil Smith stealing government Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights. L. Neil Smith bills government rights Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center! L. Neil Smith great-men men moving I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded. L. Neil Smith san-francisco government long Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process. L. Neil Smith giving-up government law Gun Control is mind control. L. Neil Smith gun-control gun mind I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. L. Neil Smith due-process process trials 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. L. Neil Smith thug stupid white [E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom. L. Neil Smith scum settling littles Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism? L. Neil Smith zero games thinking Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. L. Neil Smith giving-up causes needs We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two. L. Neil Smith differences party two The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press. L. Neil Smith important humanity exercise 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. L. Neil Smith team two mean
