>From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: Drug War quotes >Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:57:51 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > >When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal >drugs! >When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent. >When they took the ninth and tenth amendment, and I was quiet, because I was >not a state. >When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun! >Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it. > > > >"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." > >-Adolph Hitler > > > "If drug abuse is a disease, then drug war is a crime." > "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both >instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, >and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, >however slight, les we become unwitting victims of the darkness." - Supreme >Court Justice William O. Douglas > > "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." - Albert Einstein > > "When society turns the sick into criminals then we're all repeat >offenders" - Recidivist3 > > "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." > - H.L. Mencken > "Working together we can treat Washington's 40 billion dollar a year >addiction to the War on Drugs." - Polly Wilmoth Waco, TX > "It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to >resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change >of circumstances, become his own." - Thomas Jefferson > "If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution >inevitable." - John F. Kennedy > "For every complex problem there is an easy answer, and it is wrong." > - H.L. Mencken > "Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be >maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." - Abraham >Lincoln > "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - President >Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) > Mistrust those in whom the impulse to punish is strong. -Friedrich >Nietzsche > The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on >his stupidity--and that's just not fair! - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of >Germany > No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If >we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for >drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of >power.- P. J. O'Rourke > To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. > - Abraham Lincoln > When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson (Name >supplied by a reader--thank you Peter--he also said the date was around >1971). > > Let the people know the truth and the country is safe. - Abraham Lincoln > For fascism arrives without fanfare, like tooth decay or dry rot, behind >closed walls, until the very foundation is washed away, forever. Unknown > Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. > -Seneca > Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! - Robert Burns > A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. - Tacitus > Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson > Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without >newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment >to prefer the latter. - Thomas Jefferson > We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created >equal and independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights >inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, >and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson > This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human >mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not >tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas >Jefferson > Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear >itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed >efforts to convert retreat-to advance. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt > > Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and >mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson > > Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Mark Twain > > He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. - Cicero > > Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson > > No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's >consent. - Abraham Lincoln > > Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom >never endangered. - Cicero > > We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound >together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks >to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all >nationalities. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt > > Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington > > Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if >she had laid an asteroid. - Mark Twain > > There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or >to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski > > Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the >people. - Abraham Lincoln > > If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you >must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the >murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there >were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," >because of adultery. - St. John Chrysostom: Homilies, c.388 > Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part >of a government. - Jean Jacques Rousseau > > Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became >truth. - George Orwell, 1984 > > I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be >compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in >the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety. > - W.C. Magee (Archbishop of York): Sermon at Peterborough, 1868. > > 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: Speech in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dec >18, 1840. > > Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places and >does not cure it or even diminish it. - Mark Twain: Letter from New York to >the Alta Californian, May 28, 1867. > > Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor >of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. > -Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776 > > The passing of an unjust law is the suicide of authority. - Pastoral >Letter of the American Roman Catholic Herarchy, Feb. 1920 > > There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the >vast majority by adequate governmental action. - Bertrand Russell: Outline >of Intellectual Rubbish. > > Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a >habit. - Bertrand Russell: Saturday Review, 1951. > > While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath >is individual liberty. - Charles Evans Hughes: U.S. Supreme Court Member, >May 1908. > > Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the >subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of >resistance. - Woodrow Wilson: Address, New York Press Club, May 9, 1912. > > The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and >force. - Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf. > > Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out >something favorable for the opponent. - Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf. > > In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, >but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. - Thomas >Jefferson > > Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of >truth. - Johann Georg Von Zimmermann > > Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther >King, Jr. > > Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten >your aim. - George Santayana > > A wise man will look upon himself ten years past and exclaim, "What a fool >was I." Whereas, a fool will discern no difference. - Unknown > > We hear about constitutional rights, free speech, and the free press. >Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man >is a Communist. You never hear a real American talk like that." - Frank >Hague: N.Y. World-Telegram, April 2, 1938. > > There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content. > - P.J. Goebbels: Speech at Nuremberg, Aug. 20, 1926. > > Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. > - Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist. > > I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty >than those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson > > Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be >maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. > - Abraham Lincoln > > Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under >a just God, cannot long retain it. > - Abraham Lincoln > > Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when >you know which half to believe. - Orben's Current Comedy > > The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then >liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the >exploitation of the weak. - Will Durant > > We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of >experience. - Abraham Lincoln > > Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you >please. - Mark Twain > > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: