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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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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Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220 pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110 pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong?
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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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Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.
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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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To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.
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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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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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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.
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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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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
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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.
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Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.
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The function of government is to provide you with service the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
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Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.
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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.
L. Neil Smith
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
L. Neil Smith
Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.
L. Neil Smith
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
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