Block Quote by K. Eric Drexler

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries…

— Alan Dershowitz

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

— Frank Herbert

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

— Arthur Balfour

We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee.

— Noam Chomsky

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

— Hod Lipson

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

— Anonymous

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both…

— P. D. James

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they…

— James Madison

You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.

— Marine Le Pen