The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we’re seeing today are far from unprecedented. L. Neil Smith Read Quote
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. L. Neil Smith Read Quote
Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. L. Neil Smith Read Quote
As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. L. Neil Smith Read Quote
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. L. Neil Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it… for the children. L. Neil Smith Read Quote