“Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.” NeedsHumansGovernmentPoliticianDiseaseMiseryLibertarianCures Author:L. Neil Smith
“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
“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.” SelfGovernmentCareSchoolLyingReaderFellowsAngryMajorityDon't CarePropagandaServingDisappointedPublic SchoolTanksLeftistsSchool SystemSelf Serving Author:L. Neil Smith
“If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.” IfsLittlesStatesGovernmentHouseUnitedUnited StatesNiceCleanShirtsJeansT ShirtState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentNebraskaClean Shaven Author:L. Neil Smith
“Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.” GovernmentRightsConstitutionBillsBoundsChainsCorporationsBill Of Rights 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
“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.” NeedsLongGovernmentHouseWaterPaySellsCriminalsBoatMeatSan FranciscoTouristsDiscardedExcursionsExpiredChumAlcatraz Author:L. Neil Smith
“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.” GivingLittlesGovernmentLawValuesProcessAcceptingPsychologyEconomicObjectsWillingGiving UpFairsEconomicsBetrayEconomistMisunderstandingSubjectiveUtilitySellersBuyersEconomic Value Author:L. Neil Smith
“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.” IfsShouldHas BeensGovernmentLawRealizingLevelsLeaderMovementPoliticianEasierWeaponsGunVictimNakedFraudFascismTaxationTransparentHerdsDisarmamentConstituentsAnti GunGun Law Author:L. Neil Smith
“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.” PeopleIfsHumansMayImportantGovernmentIndividualHuman BeingsMistakeFailingGroupsCostDrugSucceedMessTriumphDestructiveProtected Author:L. Neil Smith
“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” WantProblemGovernmentJobsPovertyPoliticianPromiseThreatCancerSolveUnemploymentBureaucracyNo ProblemSolved Problems Author:L. Neil Smith
“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.” MeanHas BeensGovernmentRunningSocialEconomicCommunicationIndustryInternetBenefitsComputerLateJokesDefenseDespiteDirtyOfficialsDepartmentEmployeeMarijuanaTrafficTechnologicalRecipesTradingGeekEmployers1960sLiberatedAcademiaHordeExchangingBrowniesMeans Of CommunicationDirty Jokes Author:L. Neil Smith
“Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.” PeopleHas BeensTwoSeemsGovernmentIndividualLeftForceTakenExampleBeatsThreatTwo ThingsThrownGoodsCheeseStolenPeasantsDelightedFeesSurplusMiddlemenDeadly Force 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
“Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.” GovernmentStealing Author:L. Neil Smith
“We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.” WayBelieveHandsGovernmentAmericaSecurityObjectsExpectedTerroristPreservesUsaDepartmentPatriotHomelandPatriot ActHomeland SecurityPublic SafetyUsa Patriot ActDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:L. Neil Smith
“City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.” IfsGovernmentCitiesOughtPublic HealthCity Government Author:L. Neil Smith
“I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.” GovernmentExistencePrivilege Author:L. Neil Smith
“I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.” IfsReasonGovernmentLyingLevelsSeaMembersCaughtPunishmentOfficialsAmendmentsProvidingProposePublic OfficialsConstitutional Amendments Author:L. Neil Smith
“The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.” GovernmentMediaFunctionVaseline Book:The American Zone Source: The American Zone
“I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.” GovernmentMediaTiredCorporationsLiedI'm TiredBeing Lied Author:L. Neil Smith
