L. Neil Smith Short Quotes

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America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.

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As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

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Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

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The only hope we have is the Internet.
We must strive to keep it free.

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Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

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

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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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What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

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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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Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

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We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

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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.

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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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Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

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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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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.

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Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity — and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

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The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them. It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

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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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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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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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If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

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Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.

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