Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-03-11 Mar 11, 2014Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.~ William F. Buckley, Jr.When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.~ Dr. Ron Paul[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, “The war on drugs has been beneficial.” The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways -- they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: “Sue us if you don’t like it.” And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take -- as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.~ Jacob G. Hornberger Mar 10, 2014It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.~ TertullianI want gay married people to be able to protect their marijuana plants with guns.~ Tim MoenThe purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.~ Peter McWilliams Mar 7, 2014Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.~ Dr. Ron Paul[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.~ Frances Moore LappéMastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.~ Lao-Tzu Mar 6, 2014It perhaps goes without saying that the ‘average’ gun owner and the ‘average’ criminal are worlds apart in background, social outlooks, and economic circumstances. The idea that common, ordinary citizens are somehow transformed into potential perpetrators of criminally violent acts once they have acquired a firearm seems farfetched, most of all since there is substantial evidence that the typical gun owner is affluent, Protestant, and middle-class.~ James D. WrightLadies and Gentlemen, we only pass laws against people who obey the law. Drug dealers, bank robbers and rapists don’t care what we do because they willfully violate the law anyway.~ Rod WrightThe difference between [people who take civil liberties seriously] and others ... is that such serious people begin with a constitutional understanding that declines to trivialize the Second Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, just as they likewise decline to trivialize any other right expressly identified elsewhere in the Bill of Rights. It is difficult to see why they are less than entirely right in this unremarkable view. That it has taken the NRA to speak for them, with respect to the Second Amendment, moreover, is merely interesting -- perhaps far more as a comment on others, however, than on the NRA.~ William Van Alstyne Mar 5, 2014America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something’s eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it’ll be one more round of “reasonable gun control” or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from “child abuse.” Whatever, something will snap.~ Claire WolfeGovernment cannot be your parent.~ Jesse VenturaWe create the government that screws you, and then you’re supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.~ Vin Weber Mar 4, 2014Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country.~ Samuel Adams[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.~ Alexis De TocquevillePower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.~ Lord Acton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print