"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically……" — Larry Elder
"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
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32 Quotes by Larry Elder
Larry Elder has 32 quotes on this site.
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
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Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.
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Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used…
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Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate…
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According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support…
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the…
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Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency,…
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But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement…
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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think…
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon…
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to…
— Jerry Bridges
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
— William Shakespeare
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy…
— James Anthony Froude
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But…
— Dan Barker
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to…
— John Cage
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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