L. Neil Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Government is waging war against the people.”

“I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.”

“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.”

“I'm as radical as libertarians come.”

“I'm tired of being considered property.”

“Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.”