Drug Quotes - Page 31

• To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

  J. Norman Collie

  Running, War, Government

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• The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.53, Penguin

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• We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

  Henry Steele Commager

  War, Past, Silence

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

  Alexander Bickel

  War, Law, Judging

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• I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Children, War, Drinking

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, War, Cannabis

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• Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

  Gustavo de Greiff

  War, Legitimacy, Used

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• The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.

  Juan Guerrero Burciaga

  War, Fighting, Rights

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• The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

  William E. Gladstone

  War, Majority, Degrees

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• Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Book, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What Men Live By and Other Tales”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

  George McGovern

  War, Would Be, Done

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• If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Common Sense, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.247, Algora Publishing

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• The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Inspirational, War, Struggle

  Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.

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• . . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, War, Justice

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• Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, War, Government

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• Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Honesty, War, Exercise

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• There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

  Lysander Spooner

  Life, War, Law

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• Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

  Michael Ventura

  Life, War, Justice

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• I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

  Charles Dickens

  War, Believe, Blow

  Charles Dickens (1974). “The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 3. 1842-1843”, OUP Oxford

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• Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  War, Ideas, Criminals

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• I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.

  Carl E. Olson

  War, Marijuana, Use

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• So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, America, Tobacco Industry

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• It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, War, Impossible

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• I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, Marijuana, Chance

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.40, City Lights Publishers

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• The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

  Peter McWilliams

  War, People, Choices

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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