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Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.
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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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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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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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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I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.
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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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The function of government is to provide you with service the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
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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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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
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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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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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