List of L. Neil Smith Quotes

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.

Repealing Drug Laws Would Remove The Risks Involved With Producing And Distributing Drugs, Bringing 'street Prices' Crashing Down (it's Estimated That A 'spoon' Of Heroin Would Cost About A Quarter In The Free Market), Thereby Eradicating Any Incentive That Criminals Might Have To Compete With Legitimate Businesses, And Greatly Reducing If Not Eliminating Altogether Any Economic Reason To 'push' Drugs On Children.

Of All The Groups That Sometimes Claim To Own Your Life, Family Is The Hardest To Defend Your Individual Sovereignty From.

Economists Tell Us That The 'price' Of An Object And Its 'value' Have Very Little Or Nothing To Do With One Another. 'value' Is Entirely Subjective Economic Value, Anyway While 'price' Reflects Whatever A Buyer Is Willing To Give Up To Get The Object In Question, And Whatever The Seller Is Willing To Accept To Give It Up. Both Are Governed By The Law Of Marginal Utility, Which Is Actually A Law Of Psychology, Rather Than Economics. For Government To Attempt To Dictate A 'fair Price' Betrays Complete Misunderstanding Of The Entire Process.

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.

You're People, In Short, Who Must Be Stupid, Insane, Or Evil To Continue Arguing In The Face Of Indisputable Facts And Irrefutable Logic That Others Must Be Forced Into A State Of Helplessness And Victimized By Individual Criminals Or The State. Stupid, Insane, Or Evil.

For The Second Amendment To Do Its Job, The Other Side Must Become Much Better Informed. I Watched An Action-adventure Program Last Night That Asserted That The Famous Ak-47 - The Original Peoples' Rifle (and Authority's Greatest Mistake) - Is Rare In This Country, And That The Only Ones Here Were Originally Smuggled In From The Middle East, Or Possibly From South America. The Idiots Who Wrote This Mess Seemed Unaware That After Legal Imports - Mostly From China - Were Illegally Cut Off By Executive Order, They Began To Be Manufactured Here.

Many Individuals Spend A Considerable Portion Of Their Lifetimes In Terror Of One Imagined Catastrophe Or Another. The Classic Is That Your Immortal Soul Will Be Consigned To Eternal Torment In The Never-ending Subterranean Barbecue If You Fail To Follow The Whacky Edicts Of One Particular Set Of Puckered Dogwhistles Or Another. You May Recall From The Great Movie Strange Days That A "dogwhistle" Is A Guy Whose Asshole Is So Tight That When He Farts, Only Dogs Can Hear Him.

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.

Most Libertarians Agree That All Rights Are, In Effect, Property Rights, Beginning With This Fundamental Right To Self-ownership And Control Of One's Own Life. As Owners Of Their Own Lives, Individuals Are Completely Free To Do Absolutely Anything They Wish With Them Provided, Of Course, That It Doesn't Violate The Identical Right Of Others Whether The People Around Them Approve Of What They Do Or Not.

I'm Tired Of Living In A Police State.

Try Not To Be Too Angry Or Disappointed With Your Fellow Americans. Most Of Them Don't Care About Politics As Much As The Majority Of My Readers, And The Education They Have Received About It From The Government's Public School System Is Nothing More Than A Septic Tank Full Of Warmed-over Self-serving Statist Lies And Leftist Propaganda.