Quotes from L. Neil Smith


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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.


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.


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.


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.


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


I'm tired of living in a police state.


I'm tired of being considered property.


I'm as radical as libertarians come.


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


Government is waging war against the people.


Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.


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


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