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• [N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

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  Differences, Giving, Democracy

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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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  Watches, Force, Agree

  "Tactical Reflections" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org.

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• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

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  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• [E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

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  Scum, Littles, Settling

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• A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

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  Real, Civilization, Cities

  "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.

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• Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

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  Giving Up, Needs, Causes

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• People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you prod it, even with the shortest stick, the established system isn't simply corrupt, it's unequivocally putrescent. The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you.

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  Believe, Law, People

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• I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.

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  Confused, Thinking, People

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.120, Macmillan

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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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  Fun, Dirty, Social Values

  "The Venus Belt". Book by L. Neil Smith, 1980.

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• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

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  Philosophy, Self Esteem, Political

  "Alice Shrugged". December 18, 2008.

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• And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

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  Bravery, Goes On, Capacity

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

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  Respect, Authority, Has Beens

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.295, Macmillan

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• I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.

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  Government, San Francisco, Long

  "It Has to Cost Them Something". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 08, 2009.

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• Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

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  Ideas, Perfect, News

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• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

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  Military, War, Drug

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• Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.

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  Gun, Hands, People

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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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  Tired, Exercise, Rights

  "I'm Tired (With Apologies to Pearl Bailey and Madeleine Kahn)". Second annual Liberty Round Table Conclave near Estes Park, Colorado, July 2, 1998.

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• Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon - rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

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  Children, Men, Rifles

  "The Atlanta Declaration". lneilsmith.org. September 1987.

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• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

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  Humanity, Enemy, Important

  "Am I the NRA?". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 14, 2007.

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• America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws. While drugs were consumed by large numbers of people — the number of women habituated to the opium found in laudanum was, no pun intended, staggering — they were, for the most part, easily able to live their lives, do their jobs, and raise their families pretty much the way we do today.

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  Law, America, Drug

  "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 13, 2010.

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• Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism - Progressivism - all forms of left wing collectivism, are equally alien to the Founders' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.

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  Laughter, Wings, Roots

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a populace is much easier to herd, loot and dispose of if it has been stripped of its weapons. The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.

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  Gun, Law, Government

  "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. October 18, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Lying, School, Government

  "Only Nixon". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. November 09, 2008.

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• One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

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  Police, Nazi, Authority

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• A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

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  Believe, Liberty, Principles

  "What Libertarians Believe" by L. Neil Smith and Rylla Cathryn Smith, www.ncc-1776.org. January 4, 2009.

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