When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki
"[Our current prison state] has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else. - Noam Chomsky
The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts -- wets, drys, and hypocrites. - Florence Sabin
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism. - Gore Vidal, THE WAR AT HOME, November 1998
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful. - Gore Vidal, THE WAR AT HOME, November 1998
When we turn to the government to stop someone from ruining his life with drugs, we convert a personal tragedy into a national disaster. - Harry Brown, Libertarian Party
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. - Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928
More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what? - Fred Oerther, M.D., Portland Oregon, September, 1986
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. - Noah Webster
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. - Sallust, Roman historian, c. 40 B.C.
And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it... Now I have to create Republicans. - Bill Hicks, Comedian
If police win the right to haul you off in handcuffs for not wearing a seatbelt, scan your house at whim with a thermal imaging gun, and set up random roadblocks so dogs can sniff your car for drugs then victimless crimes will be to blame...The War on Victimless Crimes has turned into an all-out War on the Bill of Rights. - Steve Dasbach, National director of the Libertarian Party, Oct. 2000
A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it?s a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole. - Frank Zappa
Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating. - Richard Neville
Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use. - President Jimmy Carter, August 2, 1977
Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. - Daryl Gates
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. - Hugo L Black, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court. Dissenting opinion in 6-2 ruling that upheld federal law making possession of heroin sufficient evidence of illegal importation of drugs, 20 Jan 70
My final point about alcohol, about drugs, about Pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see or take into my body as long as I don't harm another human being whilst on this planet? And for those of you having a little moral dilemma on how to answer this, I'll answer for you. NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS! Take that to the bank, cash it and take it on a vacation outta my fucking life. - Bill Hicks, Comedian
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. - G. Gordon Liddy
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. - Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey
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
Nonconformists are all alike. - Bumper Sticker
We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution. - Abe Lincoln
All we ask is to be let alone.- Jefferson Davis (1808?1889): First Message to the Confederate Congress, March, 1861.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered. - Dorothy Thompson
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. - Samuel Adams
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
For As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English rule. For we fight, not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour - but for freedom alone, which no good man surrenders but with his life.? - From the Declaration of Arbroath, The Scottish Declaration of Independence to the Roman Pope, ratified by the Scots April 6, 1302.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
America is at that awkward stage. It?s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. - Claire Wolfe, 101 Things To Do Until the Revolution
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. - Abbie Hoffman, author of Steal this Book
We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice. - Claire Wolfe, Media Bypass, May 1998
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Abigail Adams, Paris, Feb. 22, 1787
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese proverb
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