Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

“Whoever is out of power in the universities and the MSM is for free speech. The leftists of the 60s and 70s deliberately infiltrated those institutions and now they are imposing what once they were opposing.” — Manuel Miles, aka Kaptain Kanada

“Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.” — Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

“The real obscenity exists in trusting government officials, whether in robes or suits, with the authority to override our freedom of expression and speech.” — Anthony Gregory on censorship vs. free speech

“Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Free speech doesn't end at the point were someone is offended … it begins there.” — guy posting online as “Lalo Z”

“A persistent characteristic of civilizations in decline throughout history has been their self-strangling by slow, swollen, and stupid bureaucracies.” — Camille Paglia

“…gestures of virtue are as formalized as kabuki. Humor has been assassinated. An off word at work or school will get you booted to the gallows. This is the graveyard of liberalism, whose once noble ideals have turned spectral and vampiric.” — Camille Paglia

“…reason has been displaced by denunciation. If someone, anyone, says something, that can be misconstrued and denounced, it will be, the meaning of what was said not withstanding.” — Paul Craig Roberts on political discourse in 21st century USA

“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” — Aristotle

“[Professor Jordan] Peterson’s immense international popularity demonstrates the hunger for meaning among young people today. Defrauded of a genuine humanistic education, they are recognizing the spiritual impoverishment of their crudely politicized culture, choked with jargon, propaganda, and lies.” — Camille Paglia

“The sure sign that you HAVE been brainwashed is this: you think that you cannot be brainwashed. We all can and we all have been brainwashed; that is beyond doubt. The only questions remaining are a) What have you done to de-program yourself? and, b) What do you do to prevent yourself from becoming re-programmed? One of the most stupid things people say is, ”I think I'd know it if I were brainwashed.” Really? If you were brainwashed you would not, by very definition, know it. Only those who struggle against ”what everyone knows” and ”perceived 'wisdom'” every day, who analyse and doubt even—and especially—their own core beliefs, can hope to be free from brainwashing.” — Manuel Miles, aka Kaptain Kanada

“An entire generation's minds are not present in the same location as their bodies. Think about that. The irony of it is that the computer can help us to communicate ideas and ”connect” with one another, but the cell phone/social media disease is having the opposite effect.” — Manuel Miles, aka Kaptain Kanada

“I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” — Albert Einstein

“Those who abandon their past have no future.” — Kaptain Kanada

“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.” — Julian Assange

“If you can’t even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?!” — Jordan Peterson

“We live in an age of emotional incontinence, when they who emote the most are believed to feel the most.” — Theodore Dalrymple

“A common post structuralist trend is to judge a theory by the ideal it represents, and how interesting it is…rather than its truth or practical outcome” — “jorgepeterbarton” on Youtube

“There's a tendency to think that government is minding the store, when in reality they are armed looters. That's your vote in action.” — Tweeted by “Deep South Digs”

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams

“A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.” — James Bovard

“Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.” — H.L. Mencken

“Democracy is a flock of sheep and a herd of cattle competing to select their next butcher.” — Manuel Miles, aka Kaptain Kanada

“Democracy is the highest form of tyranny. It keeps people from noticing that they have no power over anything. Democracy means ‘rule of the people,’ usually by Wall Street looters and blockhead generals with the minds of giant clams and all sorts of feathers and colored tinsel stuck to them. They look like Byzantine mosaics. And lobbies, never forget the lobbies, draining the treasury in the manner of bloated leeches on a suppurating udder. People in democracies have the freedom of molten plastic being poured into a mold, but they probably think less than plastic does.” — Fred Reed

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transaction of their rulers may be concealed from them.” — Patrick Henry, terrorist

”When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.” — author unknown; posted on Twitter by ‘Marchella’

“Perpetual victimhood is self-inflicted & is the mark of a sociopath who is inherently the one who is the true abuser of other people.” — “Melly Moonbeams on Twitter

”You can't legislate morality, because the institution of government is inherently immoral.” — Veronica Holley

“How do you know when one side is abjectly losing a debate? They start trying to criminalize their critics & opponents.” — Glenn Greenwald

“The affinity between militarism and socialist collectivism is, and has been throughout history, a close one.” — Robert A. Nisbet

“In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims.” — Thomas Sowell

“To call something ”propaganda” doesn't erase the truth behind it. To call propaganda ”truth” erases the need to think about its faults.” — Tweeter “Semper_Liberum”

“The one and only reason politicians, bureaucrats, and policemen want to take your weapons away from you is so that they can do things to you that they couldn’t do if you still had your weapons.” — L. Neil Smith

“Socialist: someone who is always willing to put your money where her mouth is.” — Kaptain Kanada

“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free —to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. . . . To him the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.” — Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World Revisited

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.” — Harriet Tubman

“An unarmed people are subject to slavery at any time.” — Huey Newton

“The term 'conspiracy theorist' is used by those who lack facts or understanding to intelligently debate, and so seek to shut down and discredit an opponent by slander and insult. Normally when someone uses it, it's a sure sign they're a blinkered gullible individual protected from free thinking by gatekeepers.” — from a guy posting on Youtube as “caribstu”

“[Politicians] talk about freedom all the time, but [they] want freedom properly licensed, complete with photo ID. Gentlemen, you can't license freedom. You're either free or you are not.” — L. Neil Smith

“When the majority of people have been trained to clap and perform tricks for The State- and have been made psychologically dependent on its continuation, and sometimes physically dependent on its handouts- they don't want to hear that they are supporting a systemic evil. They want to feel good about themselves. Anything or anyone that exposes them to reality will be hated and vilified.” — Kent McManigal

“The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.” — James Wolcott

“Everything government touches turns to crap.” — Ringo Starr

“The act of mass murder is not made any the less immoral and destructive to civilization simply because it is ordered by presidents and generals and carried out under the guise of flag and uniform.” — Anthony Gregory

“Putting uniforms and badges on criminals doesn't make them good.” — Amos Vaden

“No matter what silly costume a psychopath wears, they are still a danger to others.” — “backflashproduction” posted this on a Youtube video

“The intent of infamy is to put two liars on stage and get the public to argue heatedly over which one is telling the truth.” — Ezra Pound

“Of two evils choose neither.” — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior.” — Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus of Visa Corporation

“No matter what the excuse, no matter what we are told, no matter how many flags are waved and speeches made, we should never again follow the orders of the generals and politicians. Slaughtering our fellow man is madness.” — Manuel Miles, aka Kaptain Kanada

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Hermann Goering

“There is no good government at all & none possible.” — Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain

“You can show fools culture and they'll treat it like a box of Cracker Jacks. If they can't find the prize, then there's no value to them…” — “bighforu” in a post on Youtube

“Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.” — Julian Assange

“If you let governments treat you like sheep, first you get fleeced and then you get slaughtered.” — Manuel Miles, aka Kaptain Kanada

“…what’s wrong with this country [the USA] today [is] it’s turning into a bunch of lemmings who are being marched off a cliff without bothering to look left or right.” — Jesse Ventura

“Social marxism is paradise on paper but hell on earth.” — Kaptain Kanada, aka Manuel Miles

“The very idea of a ‘gun solution’ is insane: guns are not the problem; their misuse, predominantly by the State and lesser criminals, is a problem as is the inability of the disarmed to defend themselves from those elements.” — Kaptain Kanada

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.” — Archibald Macleish

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.” — Robert Anthony

“When people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose, they lose it.” — Gerald Celente

“Governments don't need a problem to exist, in order to try and fix it.” — National Post blogger Jesse Kline, commenting on a “distracted driving” law in Alberta

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” — Ron Paul

“Wars are begun by politicians. They are the true militarists.” — Colonel Hans von Luck, in his book, Panzer Commander

“…all people are ready to follow idols and ideals if they become sufficiently emotionalised.” — Colonel Hans von Luck

“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is a double- edged sword. It emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch, and the blood is black with hate, and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer them up to the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done, and I am Caesar.” — Gaius Julius Caesar

“Americans are geographically isolated in that they can go nowhere without passports, which few have; linguistically isolated in that almost none speak a second language; and temporally isolated since few have even a rudimentary grasp of history. Add an odd lack of curiosity, apparently based on a belief that the superiority of America is such that other places are not worthy of study. The result is a closed system.” — Fred Reed

“Ineptocracy: a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.” — “brian”, commenting on an article in the (online version of) the Wall Street Journal

“['Public'] school administrators have confused proper limits on what they can do with improper limits they're trying to impose on those whom they're supposed to serve.” — L. Neil Smith

“The only kind of government that has ever worked, or ever will, is self control… You can't govern bad people, and you don't need to govern good people — they govern themselves.” — Kent McManigal

“The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.” — John Lennon

“I have never seen a politician purport to have bad intentions, no matter what the agenda. Hitler thought he was doing the world a favor.” — Doug Newman

“When you let people do whatever they want, you get Woodstock. When you let governments do whatever they want, you get Auschwitz.” — Doug Newman

“If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. … We have of late, we Americans, to our detriment, come to love accolades more than genuine achievement.” — Wellesley High English teacher David McCullough Jr.

“The media today is not into reporting the news, they’re into creating it, and that is very, very dangerous.” — Jesse Ventura

“We [the Beatles] said that… the government doesn't own you…” — George Harrison

“Police statism is the worst of all crimes, as all the worst crimes of history have been perpetrated by police states. Therefor, saying that we need a police state to protect us from crime is like saying we need kerosene thrown on a house fire.” — Kaptain Kanada, aka Manuel Miles

“We don't need anyone with more rights than we [have] walking around with guns.” — 'magentawave' posting on YouTube

“Any man who thinks he can be happy and Prosperous by letting the US Government Officials take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian.” — Henry Ford

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” — Tacitus

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” — William Pitt

“It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.” — L. Neil Smith

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” — Tom Clancy

“The average government bureaucrat couldn't organise a dogfight with two starving dogs and a raw steak.” — Kaptain Kanada

“Socialism is an ethical and political belief that the life and rights of the individual (provided that he has any at all) are less important than the life and putative rights of the group. Given historical examples like Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's People's Republic, and Hitler's Third Reich, it should be easy to see the consequences of such a belief and condemn it for what it is: moral cannibalism … ” — L. Neil Smith

“Now, they say that money isn´t everything. Oh yes it is. And it is what America doesn’t have so much of any more… The days when the US could afford high wages and fun wars and a vast military all at once, them days is over. ” — Fred Reed

“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.” — Philip K. Dick

“The reason why some people spend so much time dumping crap on others is because they are so full of it themselves.” — Kaptain Kanada

“The Russian Church, which has paid in millions of lives for the godless Soviet experiment, can and must testify before the adherents of militant secularism to the fact that a society torn from its spiritual roots and faith has no future.” — Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev

“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.”— Michael Crichton

“The US government is a disease that thinks it's also the cure.” — a guy posting online as “HerbanLegend420”

“Asking the government to police itself is like asking the Mafia to police itself.” — Doug Newman

“Mental darkness facilitates authoritarianism, and darkness we have. Many college graduates can barely read. Their ignorance of history, politics, and geography (and practically everything else) is profound, and they see no reason why they should know anything. They seem not to suspect that there might be things worth knowing.” — Fred Reed

“The basic Leftist premise, descending from Marxism, is that all problems in human life stem from an unjust society and that corrections and fine-tunings of that social mechanism will eventually bring utopia. Progressives have unquestioned faith in the perfectibility of mankind.” — Camille Paglia

“Libertarians don't talk in terms of solutions, as we know utopia is not an option. There are no perfect solutions. And while a free society would certainly not be a perfect society, it would be the best possible society. Let the principles of individual liberty be our guide…” — Doug Newman

“It is those who think they can fashion society to fit some ideal they imagine who are utopian. Libertarianism is the only political philosophy which actually takes into account the fallibility and corruptibility of man by recognizing that the last thing we should do is give men power over the lives of other men. If m[e]n cannot be trusted to govern their own lives as the left and right believe, then how can they possibly be entrusted with the power to govern the lives of others?” — Doug Carkuff