Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [221-237] of 237 Prohibition quotesProhibition QuotesProhibition Previous 20 quotes I am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition... (more)~ Mark Twain Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.~ Paul Valéry I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.~ Abigail Van Buren An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.~ Mark Van Doren The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don’t have to legalize, just decriminalize it.~ Jesse Ventura It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ Voltaire Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.~ Voltaire Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. Wedgwood In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.~ Andrew Weil, MD When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.~ Mae West There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.~ Rebecca West While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.~ Justice Byron R. White He hasn't one redeeming vice.~ Oscar Wilde To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.~ Virginia Woolf If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.~ Virginia Woolf Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.~ Frances Wright No nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.~ John Peter Zenger Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print