L. Neil Smith Quotes

• The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands – maybe even millions of others – to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Government is waging war against the people.

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• I’m as radical as libertarians come.

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• I’m tired of being considered property.

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• I’m tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

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• I’m tired of living in a police state.

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

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

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• As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

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

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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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• 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.

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Birth:	12th May, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Writer

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