Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."

~ Justice Potter Stewart  

"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system,
if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so.
Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Whatever the immediate gains and losses,
the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression
are always greater than the dangers
to the safety resulting from political freedom.
Suppression is always foolish."

~ Neil A. McDonald  

[T]he drug prohibition laws have led to wholesale destruction of civil liberties. The War on Drugs has now become a War on the Constitution, and the American people have become, in the eyes of their government, a society of suspects.

~ David B. Kopel  

"The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is."

~ John Casey  

"I hate this 'crime doesn't pay' stuff. Crime in the U.S. is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today."

~ Paul Kirk  

"The deterioration of every government begins
with the decay of the principles on which it was founded."

~ Charles-Louis De Secondat  

"The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. ... Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."

~ Lyle Myhr  

"When choosing between two evils
I always like to take the one
I've never tried before."

~ Mae West  

"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."

~ Michel De Montaigne  

"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  

"What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves."

~ Joel Miller  

"Prohibition 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."

~ Abraham Lincoln (Questionable)  

"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people,
and not by accident, lapse, or omission.
It is the result of their deliberate actions,
long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated
by high ideals toward virtuous ends."

~ Isabel Paterson