Quotes by L. Neil Smith

About L. Neil Smith:

Lester Neil Smith III is a libertarian science fiction author and political activist. His works include the trilogy of Lando Calrissian novels: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu (1983), Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (1983), Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka (1983), and the Omnibus edition The Lando Calrissian Adventures. He also wrote the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probability Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian science fiction novel.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

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

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

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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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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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I'm tired of living in a police state.

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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

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I'm tired of being considered property.

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I'm as radical as libertarians come.

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

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

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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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Government is waging war against the people.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameL. Neil Smith
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMay 12, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • AwardsPrometheus Award - Special Award