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"Choose your enemies carefully: youll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish."
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L. Neil SmithRepealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and — L. Neil Smith
"Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing street prices crashing down (its estimated that a spoon of heroin would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing — if not eliminating altogether — any economic reason to push drugs on children."
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Lester Neil Smith III, better known as L. Neil Smith, was an American libertarian science fiction author and political activist. His works include the trilogy of Lando Calrissian novels, all published in 1983: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon, and Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka. He also wrote the novels Pallas, The Forge of the
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"Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of ones own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them — provided, of course, that it doesnt violate the identical right of others — whether the people around them approve of what they do or not."
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"Just about everybody in politics has something to hide. The higher they rise in the system, the more skeletons they have stuffed in their closets. And as we have all come to appreciate, this goes double — or perhaps even squared — for politicos who got their start in Chicago. And because the system no longer cares about our rights (to the extent it ever did) we can no longer focus solely on issues related to them, but must cast about more widely to ensnare and defeat the enemies of liberty."
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"As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio."
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"The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internets development is as historically important to humanity — perhaps even more so — as Gutenbergs invention of the printing press."
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"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."
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