6 Quotes & Sayings By L Neil Smith

L. Neil Smith has been a columnist for "The Libertarian Enterprise" since its founding in 1972. He has also been an editor and publisher of "The Libertarian Review" and "The Freeman." He is a former president of the Association of Libertarian Feminists. Smith has written more than twenty books, including the novels The Probability Broach and Sex and Zen, as well as the science fiction novel The Probability Broach: A Novel of the Year 3000 Read more

He has won numerous awards for his fiction and nonfiction and is a frequent guest on television and radio programs. Smith lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina with his wife, Pat, and four cats.

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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. L. Neil Smith
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Government is waging war against the people. L. Neil Smith
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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. L. Neil Smith
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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. L. Neil Smith
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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. L. Neil Smith