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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
L. Neil Smith
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L. Neil Smith
Age: 75 †
Born: 1946
Born: May 12
Died: 2021
Died: August 27
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Lester Neil Smith III
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You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.
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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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As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
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Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.
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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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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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Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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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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The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
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Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.
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If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.
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[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.
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I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.
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