L. Neil Smith Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

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  Rights, Self, People

  "What Libertarians Believe, 'Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle'". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 04, 2009.

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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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  Talking, People, Novelists

  "Merchants of Fear" by L. Neil Smith presented to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

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• 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.

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  Dog, Guy, Soul

  "The Bad Guys". April 28, 2009.

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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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  Enemy, Accomplish, Known

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The American Zone”, p.64, Macmillan

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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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  Taken, Rocks, Enemy

  "Some New Tactical Reflections". www.ncc-1776.org. January 15, 1998.

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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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  Rights, Government, Bills

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". Remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• 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.

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  War, Usa, Long

  "Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two)". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. October 02, 2005.

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

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  Lying, Sea, Civilization

  "Empire of Lies" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org. June 15, 2003.

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• I'm tired of being considered property.

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  Tired, I'm Tired, Property

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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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  Promise, Want, Revolution

  Statement of purpose, L. Neil Smith's "The Webley Page", www.lneilsmith.org.

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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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  Tired, Government, Media

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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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  Groups, Sometimes, Individual

  "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. May 02, 2010.

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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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  Race, Effort, Genocide

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". L. Neil Smith's remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• 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.

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  War, America, Independence

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