Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [781-800] of 1003 Responsibility quotesResponsibility QuotesResponsibility Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Using aggression to stop drug abuse kills more people than the drugs themselves! If we honored our neighbor’s choice, the people now enforcing the minimum wage and licensing laws would be available to go after the real criminals. In 1987, drug offenders made up 36% of the federal prison population. As the War on Drugs escalates, more of our law enforcement dollar will be spent on drug-related crimes and less on rapists, murderers, and thieves. Is this the best way to deal with the drug problem? ... People who drink an alcoholic beverage in the privacy of their own homes are not using first-strike force, theft, or fraud against anyone else. Nor is a person smoking a joint or snorting cocaine, under the same conditions, guilty of anything more sinister than trying to feel good. We see no contradiction in arresting the cocaine user while we enjoy our favorite cocktail. Are we once again sanctioning aggression-through-government in an attempt to control the lives of others? In the early 1900s, many people supported aggression through-government to stop the consumption of alcoholic beverages. As we all know, Prohibition was tried, but it just didn’t work. People still drank, but they had to settle for home-brews, which were not always safe. Some people even died from drinking them. Since business people could no longer sell alcohol, organized crime did. Turf battles killed innocent bystanders, and law enforcement officials found they could make more money taking bribes than jailing the bootleggers. Aggression was ineffective—and expensive, both in terms of dollars and lives. When Prohibition was repealed, people bought their alcohol from professional brewers instead of criminals. As a result, they stopped dying from bathtub gin. The turf fighting subsided, since there was no turf to fight about. The murder and assault rate that had skyrocketed during Prohibition fell steadily after its repeal.~ Dr. Mary J. Ruwart The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts -- wets, drys, and hypocrites.~ Florence Sabin True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.~ Richard Salant Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.~ Patricia Sampson Man is condemned to be free.~ Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.~ Jean-Paul Sartre Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently “insiders” know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.~ John Scharr Americans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid -- well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program -- it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms.~ Eric Schaub By a Declaration, Liberty is born. With Courage she is nourished, and with unceasing Commitment she is guarded.~ Eric Schaub Freedom is risky. Nature makes no promises.~ Eric Schaub I cannot free another, and no one can free me. Freedom is acquired with the responsibility that sustains it.~ Eric Schaub If you want to know the big 'T' Truth, tell the little 't' truth without fail. Then listen closely to what you say.~ Eric Schaub Standing up to a tyrant has always been illegal and dangerous. There is no guarantee but one -- to not live like a slave, nor to die like one.~ Eric Schaub The process of liberation is continuous.~ Eric Schaub The 'strength' of the People becomes weak when we don't 'exercise' our rights.~ Eric Schaub Our inalienable rights cannot shield us from our own follies.~ Eric Schaub I am not free until I say so. And there's a good chance I am going to have to fight once I do. Ever since I declared my Independence, I have had to support and defend it.~ Eric Schaub When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.~ Eric Schaub Freedom has never been free. Sometimes it costs everything you've got.~ Eric Schaub Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print