Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber.… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain… — William Magee Copy Share Image
I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
