Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine
are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those
which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances."

~ Justice Byron R. White  

"To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused."

~ Lord George Lyttleton  

"The whole principle is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"Adolf Hitler's life style is simple.
He never drinks alcohol and does not smoke."

~ Heinrich Hoffmann  

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. "

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level."

~ Mark Thornton  

"Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug enforcement/drug
treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more
and more people to arrest and 'treat'? More Americans die in just one
day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails and stockades than have ever died
from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?"

~ Dr. Fred Oerther  

"The prohibition law,
written for weaklings and derelicts,
has divided the nation,
like Gaul, into three parts --
wets, drys, and hypocrites."

~ Florence Sabin  

"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line.
What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed
group of vigilantes imposing their views on others."

~ Doris Lessing  

"It is morally as bad not to care
whether a thing is true or not,
so long as it makes you feel good,
as it is not to care how you got your money
as long as you have it."

~ Edwin Way Teale  

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape,
than that the government should play an ignoble part."

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

~ Thomas Paine  

"A good end cannot sanctify evil means;
nor must we ever do evil,
that good may come of it."

~ William Penn