“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the…

Frank Herbert

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Frank Herbert

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.…

Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

Frank Herbert

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Frank Herbert

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Abraham Lincoln

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson

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Harry J. Anslinger

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

Ron Paul

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Saint John Chrysostom

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James Carriger Paine

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

Jimmy Carter

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Charles Evans Hughes

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

Randy Barnett

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…

William Magee

Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

Harry J. Anslinger

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Thomas Jefferson

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

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