Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-10-17 Oct 17, 2018Marijuana 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.If somebody smokes a joint, we're gonna go in and bust them? We're gonna raid houses in case somebody has a banned substance? Confiscate their houses? My God, if people don't see that as an abuse of force, of too much government, then we're just not communicating.~ Charles KochMarijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care. ... It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record.~ Judge Francis L. Young Oct 16, 2018Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one’s own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.~ Donald KennedyWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.~ George OrwellWhen you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the [many] believe almost anything you want, and you can guide them.~ Gore Vidal Oct 15, 2018Censors are infused with the sentiment of moral indignation – a dangerous and misleading sentiment because, by blinding those who voice it to the real reasons for their indignation, it makes them puppets whose fears can be manipulated for ends and purposes they do not foresee or intend.~ Carey McWilliamsProtection of political speech advanced two important democratic goals:1) an informed citizenry that would be capable of making educated decisions on matters of public concern, and 2) a free and open marketplace of ideas wherein the truth would ultimately prevail… Only through a vigorous and spirited public debate could citizens be educated about the actions of their government and react responsibly.~ Craig R. SmithError of opinion may be tolerated when reason is left free to combat it.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 12, 2018It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.~ Abraham Lincoln... good people doing good things. But let me tell you, you'll never find it if you just follow the Washington media. You'll never know the good. All you get is controversy, crap and confusion.~ Alan SimpsonThere are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.~ Albert Jay Nock Oct 11, 2018Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonAs the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.~ Tammy BruceWith devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.~ William Shakespeare Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print