Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 237 Prohibition quotesProhibition QuotesProhibition Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.~ Joseph Paul Goebbels During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.~ Joseph Paul Goebbels To subject an artist’s work to a litmus test of political probity – and to punish institutions that will not carry out the mandate of the state – is to traffic in the thought control that gave us Stalinism and Nazism…~ Richard Goldstein Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney Griswold There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.~ Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.~ Alexander Hamilton Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.~ Hearst newspapers nationwide Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich Heine Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich Heine The whole principle is wrong. It’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.~ Robert A. Heinlein When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.~ Robert A. Heinlein To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.~ Claude-Adrien Helvetius Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank Herbert The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.~ Granville Hicks Democrats and Republicans alike support the "War on Drugs." Federal, state, and local police make more than a million drug arrests yearly. Drug cases clog the courts. More than 60% of federal prison cells and about 30% of state prison cells hold drug offenders. No-knock drug raiders nullify the Fourth Amendment every day. Yet illicit drugs continue to pour onto the market, and they are readily available throughout the land. Looks like another failed policy. But politicians say more money will win the war. For fiscal 1996, President Clinton has requested a record $14.6 billion for this exercise in futility. State and local government will also spend huge sums. Who benefits? Posturing politicians and puritanical zealots, of course, but also the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs Service, Coast Guard, FBI, and the rest of the drug warriors. Police love the drug war, because the forfeiture laws it inspired allow them to seize and keep private property with impunity. Corrupt cops get fabulous bribes, and corruption therefore runs rampant.~ Robert Higgs The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.~ Eric Hoffer To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.~ Eric Hoffer Adolf Hitler's life style is simple. He never drinks alcohol and does not smoke.~ Heinrich Hoffmann To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils.~ Thomas Holcroft I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.~ Billie Holiday Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print