You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as thou — L. Neil Smith

"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."

"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."

"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."

"As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio."

"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."

"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."

"In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all."

"I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices."

"Sharon Tate was my best friend. Once, we were roommates. She introduced me to my husband. She was the godmother to my baby daughter who is named for her. In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone."

"Long time to see. (VS: Tapion)"

"Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants." Once in a discussion about the rapid growth of mathematics in modern times, von Neumann was heard to remark that whereas thirty years ago a mathematician could grasp all of mathematics, that is impossible today. Someone asked him: "What percentage of all mathematics might a person aspire to understand today?" Von Neumann went into one of his five-second thinking trances, and said: "About 28 percent."

"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their childrens minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are."