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1946–2021 United States
Lester Neil Smith III (12 May 1946 – 27 August 2021), also known by his nickname El Neil, was a libertarian science fiction author and political activist, whose works include the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probablity Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel.
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Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
Then they marry and see each other mostly in profile for the rest of their lives.
All real libertarians are dedicated to the eventual elimination of all taxes.
Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be.
Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity — and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.
What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!
As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.
The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
Politicians must be taught, in no uncertain terms, that the only real way to economically 'stimulate' the Productive Class is to stop stealing their fucking money!
America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.
Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.
Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.
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.
If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
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