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We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

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

Gun Control is mind control.

The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

Politicians need human misery ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

I'm tired of being considered property.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

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.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun . When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

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

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

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.

Government is waging war against the people.

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

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.