America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws. While drugs were consumed by large numbers of people โ the number of women habituated to the opium found in laudanum was, no pun intended, staggering โ they were, for the most part, easily able to live their lives, do their jobs, and raise their families pretty much the way we do today.
L. Neil SmithWorse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.
L. Neil SmithThe freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
L. Neil SmithI'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
L. Neil SmithThe 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 SmithWe're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.
L. Neil Smith