#ect

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

— L. Neil Smith

#appointed #day #elected #every #every day

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

— L. Neil Smith

#first #first amendment #media #protected #should

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

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#any #appointed #caught #constitutional #constitutional amendment

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#establish #excesses #far #first #first thing

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#boycott #effective #even #first #go

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#derived #electricity #energy #energy sources #gas

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#cannot #concealed #defect #lack #ought

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. ↗

— Liz Smith

#effective #hope #need #power #want

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ↗