Favourite Quotes

[Bajeda]

Post your favourite quotes, either drug-related or not.

Try to keep to as few posts as possible. Just edit your post if you want to add quotes unless you have something to add besides an additional quote.






To start here are quotes that pertain heavily to the war on drugs and its related issues that I really like.

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"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either."
- Benjamin Franklin


"It behooves us to think that it may profit us very little to win the war on drugs if in the process we lose our soul."
-Judge William Schwarzer


"Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly."
-Senator Robert Kennedy, 1966


"I believe that psychedelics used wisely would enable us an individuals and collectively as a society to develop a sense of core identity that transcended divisive distinctions based on national origin, religion, race, gender, class and political orientation."
-Rick Doblin


"Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong."
-Friedrich Nietzsche


"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
-Albert Einstein


"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
-Milton Friedman


"Every friend of freedom . . . must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the U.S. into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."
-Milton Friedman


"If the zeal to eliminate drugs leads this state and nation to forsake its ancient heritage of constitutional liberty, then we will have suffered a far greater injury than drugs ever inflict upon us. Drugs injure some of us. The loss of liberty injures us all."
-J. Kogan (Former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court)


"I believe we have a right to eat, drink, or inject a substance--any substance--not because we are sick and want it to cure us, nor because a government supported medical authority claims it will be good for us, but simply because the government--as our servant rather than our master--hasn't the right to meddle in our private dietary and drug affairs."
-Thomas Szasz


"If the words 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
-Terence McKenna


"We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them."
-Alexander Bickel (Constitutional scholar)


"Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel."
-Thomas Sowell


"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
-Mark Twain


"For most of human history, even under conditions of ready access to the most potent of drugs, people and societies have regulated their drug use without requiring massive education, legal, and interdiction campaigns."
-Stanton Peele


''Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others.''
-Judge Robert Sweet (Former U.S. District Judge, New York)


"I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. ...I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable."
-Alexander Shulgin


"Prohibition was introduced as a fraud... it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes."
-Roger Q. Mills (Former Senator: 1887)


"Criminal penalties have clearly failed to prevent widespread use of marijuana... Law and health are two entirely separate issues."
-Bob DuPont (Former Drug Czar - Nixon)


"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
-Harry S. Truman


"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest-- but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
-John F. Kennedy


"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson


"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-Abraham Lincoln



And the hypocritical douchebag himself.....

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
-Ronald Reagan


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Will post the more non-drug related quotes later.