Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-11-20 Nov 20, 2013After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster. It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement.~ Judge Whitman KnappIt's gotten to where defense attorneys in federal drug cases can do their clients about as much good as Dr. Kevorkian can do his -- quietly shepherd them through to the least painful end.~ Dan BaumWe simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.~ John Kaplan Nov 19, 2013Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.~ John KaplanIt is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.~ Bruce SchneierI cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson Nov 18, 2013Let us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins.~ John Biggs Jr.The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.~ John Stuart MillWe enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.~ Benjamin R. Tucker Nov 15, 2013We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.~ Mark TwainThey call it the Halls of Justice because the only place you get justice is in the halls.~ Lenny BruceShow me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.~ Phil Ochs Nov 14, 2013If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.~ A. K. GriffinIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.~ Edmund BurkeLawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.~ Jane Bryant Quinn Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print