“Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.” NeedsHumansGovernmentPoliticianDiseaseMiseryLibertarianCures Author:L. Neil Smith
“There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.” IfsHas BeensDoneYoungPayPoliticianDemocraticNobleMythologyAmbitiousSelflessSenatorsProfileMassachusettsProfiles In Courage 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
“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
“Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.” IfsReasonCan DoForgetPoliticianGunInstantNever ForgetGun ControlPolicemenBureaucratsCan Do SomethingBurglarsMuggers Author:L. Neil Smith
“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.” WarMillionsStreetsTalentMilitaryPoliticianDrugSellsCornersCupsPencilsFree MarketPolicemenBureaucratsWar On DrugsTinDubiousStreet CornersTin Cup Author:L. Neil Smith
“If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.” IfsMenChildrenIdeasMatterPoliticianWalkingPaperComfortableResponsibleNo Matter WhatAverageStoresCashMen WomenScrapSigningRiflesConstituentsHardwareHandgunsShotguns Author:L. Neil Smith
“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.” PeopleBelieveLawPurposeCoursesPoliticianSticksCriminalsJournalistAccusedPardonAbove The LawPardon Me Author:L. Neil Smith
