“What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of...” — L. Neil Smith Quote

“What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.”

“City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.”

“Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.”

“People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.”

“I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.”

“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.”

“Though every Independence Day is memorable, I can't forget the day when Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru, raised the flag of independent India in Delhi.”

“My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.”

“Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.”

“A handwritten Declaration of Independence was on my bedroom wall and the Founding Fathers were above my desk in college.”

“Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!”