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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich
[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use — Thomas A. Constantine
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,"… — Saint John Chrysostom
Republic . . . it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. — John Wayne
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — Louis D. Brandeis
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all… — Albert Einstein
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious… — Edward Gibbon
To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it. — J. Norman Collie
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind. — Ayn Rand
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past.… — Henry Steele Commager
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws,… — Alexander Bickel
I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for… — William Randolph Hearst
Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion. — Gustavo de Greiff
The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution. — Juan Guerrero Burciaga
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been… — George McGovern
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else. — Thomas Jefferson

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