L. Neil Smith

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

“It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.”

“It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.”

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

“I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Government is waging war against the people.”

“I'm as radical as libertarians come.”

“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.”

“Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.”

“City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.”

“I'm tired of being considered property.”

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

“This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.”