“Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.” FirstsGovernmentLyingInformationCommunicationMediumsCensorshipAmendmentsInflationViolationFirst AmendmentConveying Author:L. Neil Smith
“Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.” KnowsWayFirstsGovernmentTodayAbleFightingLandTaxesToolsVictimAncientSettlingFarmersHuntingTiedAwkwardSettling DownBarbaricRemnantsAncient TimesBandits Author:L. Neil Smith
“The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.” FirstsImportantDifferentGovernmentLeftForgetClassDemocracyProduceImportant ThingsExcuseSocialismIdeologyProductiveFascismThievesCompeting Author:L. Neil Smith
“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.” FirstsKindStatesReasonValuesUnitedUnited StatesRightsDangerousExerciseTenConstitutionTiredCriminalsAmendmentsI'm TiredThrowback Author:L. Neil Smith
“Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidStatesProcessSecurityArmsBearsGunDuesTrialsAmendmentsGun ControlSecond AmendmentTreasonClausesDue ProcessFree State Author:L. Neil Smith
“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.” WayFirstsLongHas BeensWarRealityLyingLong TimeCasualties Author:L. Neil Smith
“As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.” ShouldFirstsMediaAmendmentsProtectedFirst Amendment Author:L. Neil Smith
