Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-06-23 Jun 23, 2014All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].~ Justice William J. BrennanSince when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?~ Lillian HellmanYou seem ... to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy... The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 20, 2014As a first-time drug law offender, I was sentenced to 27 non-parolable years in prison. The amount of time was based on liquid waste found in the garage and unprocessed chemicals. There were no drugs.~ David A. NicholsImprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.~ George Bernard Shaw[The prison guards are] capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.~ Jean Harris Jun 19, 2014People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous...~ Edmund BurkeI 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 BurenFar from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.~ Joel Miller Jun 18, 2014One topic that has only recently begun to attract attention is the Nazi anti-tobacco movement. Germany had the world's strongest antismoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, supported by Nazi medical and military leaders worried that tobacco might prove a hazard to the race. Many Nazi leaders were vocal opponents of smoking. Anti-tobacco activists pointed out that whereas Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt were all fond of tobacco, the three major fascist leaders of Europe -- Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco -- were all non-smokers.~ Robert N. ProctorYou can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.~ Clarence S. DarrowAttack another’s rights and you destroy your own.~ John Jay Chapman Jun 17, 2014Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.~ Anjelica HustonI believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.~ Dr. Albert HoffmanIn questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.~ Galileo Galilei Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print