List Of Your Favorite Quotes

Oldies, but goodies. Funny how some things never change and how appropriate for our own age:

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
- Cicero, 42 B.C.

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt." - Cicero, circa 63 B.C.

These are so great...I offer this one for those times when our quest seems hopeless or overwhelming...

"When I despair, I remember that all throughout history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always." Mahatma Ghandi

Fortune Favors the Bold

"We're in a lotta trouble!"

But a relevant one is 'the first thing people will do for their ideals is lie' (Eric Hoffer) which I think explains why we are in the pickle we are in.

People who say they would give anything for an honest politician and then ignore Dr. Paul because he is 'kooky', 'extreme', 'eccentric' are in this category imo.

#1 Do what you can, with what you have, where you are #2 When they call roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.

"War is an awful business. The lives of a nation's finest patriots are sacrificed." ~Jaun McLame. I guess this is why we get wars every few years and traitors like McWar and Bushit are our elitist choice for president !!

" Nowadays , we often hear politicians say that they have changed their minds on the Iraq War and that if they had known then what they know now, they never would have gone along. We'll , hindsight is child's play in politics. What takes guts and insight is the ability to spot a hoax even as it is being perpetrated. In any case, they have no excuse for not knowing: RON PAUL TOLD THEM !!" , - Lew Rockwell

'"TRUTH IS TREASON IN THE EMPIRE OF LIES " ~ RON PAUL

not gold.

"Necessity, it has been said, is the plea for every infringement
of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants and the creed
of slaves."...William Penn

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,
and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your
vote is never lost."...John Quincy Adams

"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime,
suppress minorities and still remain democratic."
...Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"Throughout recorded history, without exception, it has been the sole accomplishment of organized government to deprive their populations of liberty and of their property."...John C. Calhoun

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world
incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death.
How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness.
How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic."...Ted Nugent

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."...Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"There are none so blind as those who will not see."
...Jonathan Swift, 1738

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none."...Thomas Jefferson

"It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted
to a sick society."...J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the
people fear the government, there is tyranny."...Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."...Benjamin Franklin

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed,
or numbered. My life is my own."...THE PRISONER

"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth."
...Morpheus

"No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." ...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in
peace. We seek not your consul, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."...Samuel Adams

"When a well packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to
the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly
preposterous and it's speaker a raving lunatic."...Dresden James

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and thus clamorous to be led to safety), by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."...H.L. Mencken

"You're brought up learning that drugs make you crazy, then you do
marijuana for the first time, and it's not so bad. It's kind of cool.
That's when kids find out it's been a lie."
...New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson 10/4/99

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good
example."...Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ...Mark Twain

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."...Alexander Hamilton

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
...George Santayana

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." ~ Thoreau

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." ~ V

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1 Brave man makes a majority!
Andrew Jackson

Dr. Steve Parent

once said:

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

as well as:

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

and finally:

"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst of Evils.

A stitch in time, saves nine.

When in doubt be convincing.

What does it all mean Mr. Natural? It don't mean Shit!

"You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning." --Andrew Jackson,
1828

This is pure, unsaturated, and quite impossible to adhere to in this day and age. It's been attached to every comments I made ever since I started posting here at DP.

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." Confucius

"Sasquatch can't roll with this. That just happened!" -- circa 2 mins ago

Octobox
Wisdom is the anticipation of consequences!

Here is an old post I made about favorite Ron Paul quotes:
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
Check it out and the video I made showing my favorite Ron Paul quote of all time.
Cheers.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

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" Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. "
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

So many excellent nuggets here and so very many more to be added. I amassed a small fortune in verbal gems like the above (or below, if you're reading this with the newest-first option) over the course of perhaps 10 years, more or less ending just a few years ago. Total file size is over 1.6 MB. Of all of that, I'll pass along 2 which I use very frequently. The first is very short:

"The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos."
--Frank Herbert

The second is much longer but I dare anyone to read it and not be dazzled by an "aha!" moment. I will offer 2 versions, both of which I gleaned from -- where else? -- the Internet. First the long version:

"Once a citizen is faced with absolute undeniable proof of government wrongdoing, he or she has to decide what, if anything, to do about it. To take action against a corrupt and dishonest government involves great risks to person and prosperity. To NOT take action against a corrupt and dishonest government means surrendering one's self-image of standing for truth or justice; to be seen by the world and by oneself as no better than the Germans who allowed Hitler to do what he did. Most people do not have the courage to take a stand against a corrupt government. More to the point they do not have the courage to admit to themselves that they lack the courage to take a stand against a corrupt government. The easy way out is fanatical belief in the government's innocence and benevolence, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. One does not have to face the question of what to do about a corrupt government if one simply refuses to see the corruption. The government relies in great measure on this denial in the public's collective mind to conceal the government's crimes. The downside is that once the facts finally do break through the public's denial, the anger will be all the more extreme for its being delayed."
--Michael Rivero, 5/19/2001, on FreeRepublic.com

...and now that you've read that version, here is the more concise version which boils the above down further and which I think packs a huge closing wallop:

"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."
--Michael Rivero
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Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity -- Tomorrow is our permananent address -- The price of eternal vigilance is indifference -- Marshall McLuhan

"Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win."
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
"In case of doubt, vote AGAINST."
"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."
'Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again."
"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmedgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
"It is better to copulate than never."
excerpts from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Time Enough For Love.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W. Bush August 5, 2004

Ronald Reagan: Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Abe Lincoln: I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution,” he said. “The Constitution must be maintained at all costs, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off their existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, will liberate the entire world.

John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff of the New York Times, called by his peers "the Dean of his profession", was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club. He responded with the following statement:

"There is no such thing as an independent press in America, if we except that of litle country towns. You know this and I know it. Not a man among you dares to utter his honest opinion. Were you to utter it, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.

I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week so that I may keep my honest opinion out of the newspaper for which I write. You too are paid similar salaries for similar services. Were I to permit that a single edition of my newspaper contained an honest opinion, my occupation - like Othello's - would be gone in less than twenty-four hours.

The man who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinion would soon be on the streets in search of another job. It is the duty of a New York journalist to lie, to distort, to revile, to toady at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or what amounts to the same thing, his salary.

We are the tools and the vassals of the rich behind the scenes. We are marionettes. These men pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our capacities are all the property of these men - we are intellectual prostitutes." (As quoted by T. St. John Gaffney in Breaking The Silence, page 4.)

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.
Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.
Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books.
Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.
Believe nothing just because someone else believes it.
Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
-Buddha

"You favor life
He sides with Death
I straddle the fence
And my balls hurt"

-Jim Morrison

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Christi
Proud Ron Paul Supporter

"F*CK THE POLICE!" -Rage Against the Machine

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone; and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. --John Quincy Adams

A wise and prudent government does not take bread from the mouths of labor.--Thomas Jefferson

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency- Teddy Roosevelt

Libera me, let the truth break, what my fears make--Leslie Phillips

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine

Good thread ... I thought we were talking about RP quotes only, but more is good!

You have to forgive me for forgetting the exact wording of these, as I haven't memorized them (which I should), but this are a couple of my favorites ...

The Thomas Paine one about the "sunshine patriots"
The Ron Paul one where he says something to the effect of "Let it not be said we did nothing".

Actually, if somebody has access to these (I have trouble being online sometimes here at work) and could repost, that'd be great!

"If they do not go with us, it does not matter. We already have their children"

- German dictator

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.

Fortune Favors the Bold

"I was almost over
and my world was almost gone
In a startling rush
I could almost touch
the things that I done wrong.

My jungle's made of concrete
and through the silence I can feel
that my aims are true
and i will walk on through
these mountains made of steel

and i say,
Do you know where the power lies?
And who pulls the strings?
Do you know where the power lies?
I said it starts and ends with you."
-Rancid

"I put that record on, just to make a sound
to stir me up and start my movement off the ground
the soundtrack of what I want to be
I want to change the world--
It's got to start with me."
-Bouncing Souls

"You've got to turn over a new leaf
Cause that old one's turning on you
You've got to turn over a new leaf
And let your love come on through
You've got to turn over a new leaf
If the future's only hoped for we are doomed."

"Hey sit down and listen and they'll tell when you're wrong.
Eradicate but Vindicate as progress creeps along
Puritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edge
As old glory maintains your consciousness

There's a loser in my house and a puppet on a stool
And a crowded way of life, and a black reflecting pool
And as the people bend, the moral fabric dies
then country can't pretend to ignore it's people cries

Cause you are the government
You are jurisprudence
You are the volition
You are jurisdiction
And I make a difference too."
-Bad Religion

but excerpts from the "Elder Edda", the ancient Icelandic Norse saga:

"The coward believes he will live forever
If he holds back in the battle,
But in old age he shall have no peace
Though spears have spared his limbs"

"A foolish man lies awake all night
thinking of many things.
When the morning comes he is worn with care
and his troubles are just as they were."

"An ill tempered, unhappy man
Ridicules all he hears,
Makes fun of others, refusing always
To see the faults in himself."

"Cherish those near you, never be
The first to break with a friend:
Care eats him who can no longer
Open his heart to another."

"If aware that another is wicked, say so:
Make no truce or treaty with foes."

"No one knows less what a nit-wit he is
Than the man who talks too much. "

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Thomas Jefferson

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.
James Madison

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -- Tacitus, Roman senator and historian (A.D. c.56-c.115)

"The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be." -- Lao-tzu, The Tao Te Ching

"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people." -- Justice William O. Douglas

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. -- Thomas Jefferson

"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler" -- Eisenhower

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"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." - bush - 9/13/01

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - bush - 3/13/02
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"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." -- rumsfeld

"But she [America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom." -- John Q. Adams

"Generals gathered in their masses . Just like witches at black masses . Evil minds that plot destruction . Sorcerers of death’s construction . In the fields the bodies burning . As the war machine keeps turning . Death and hatred to mankind . Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!" -- Black Sabbath

""I was only ordering followers!" - bush on the witness stand at war crimes trial

"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." - Sun Tzu

"No man can take part in the torture of a human being without having his own moral nature permanently lowered." - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini - The "Father of Fascism"

"The most important thing for us is to find Osam Bin Laden, It's our #1 Priority and we will not rest until we find him"
- George W. Bush, Sept 13 2001.

"I dont know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don't care. It's not that important, It's not our priority"
- George W. Bush, March 13, 2002.

`Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life'- Aristophanes -

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty
Thomas Jefferson.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - JFK

“A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” - Thomas Jefferson

`A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither' -
Thomas Jefferson

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another; shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement” - Thomas Jefferson

"Hemp is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country." - Thomas Jefferson

"Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere." George Washington

"Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp."
May 12 George Washington
Diary Entry, May 12 , 1765

"began to separate the male from the female (hemp ) plants" - George Washington
Diary Entry, August 7, 1765

“Certainly no good reason can be assigned why the
Hemp of New Zealand should not thrive with us, as
that country lyes [sic] in about the same Southern lati-tude
that our middle States do in the Northern. The
Hemp of the East Indies grows well here (from my own
experience) and I have no doubt of the Tea plant suc-ceeding
in So. Carolina and Georgia.”
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT WASHINGTON
TO JOHN SINCLAIR
December 10, 1796

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
- Abraham Lincoln – (December 1840)

`It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues'
- Abraham Lincoln –

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."- Abraham Lincoln

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can
exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary
right to dismember or overthrow it.”
{President Abraham Lincoln}{First Inaugural Address}

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“Speaking generally, the Commission are of the opinion that the moderate use of hemp drugs appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind.” - Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-1894

`Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- Thomas Carlyle

“Having reviewed all the material available to us we find ourselves in agreement with the conclusion reached by the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission appointed by the Government of India (1893-1894) and the New York Mayor's Committee on Marihuana (1944), that the long-term consumption of cannabis in moderate doses has no harmful effects.” - Cannabis: Report by the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence (England, 1968)

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
- Albert Einstein –

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'
- Benjamin Franklin

"We in this country have to make up our minds -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free."
Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Co-author Marihuana, The Forbidden Medicine

“After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat.” - Dr. James C. Munch, Hearings on the Marijuana Tax Act (1937).

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use.
- Jimmy Carter, 1977

"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Pastor Martin Niemoeller -

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson

The DEA's Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young concluded: "In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care."
Source: US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition
[Docket #86-22] (September 6, 1988)

“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.” - Colonel Oliver North

"Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS."- White House Drug Czar Carlton Turner, 1986

`Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys'
- P.J. O'Rourke –

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke

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"RON PAUL SUPPORTER SINCE 1997"

that had Ron Paul quotes maybe someone will post it. Thanks, for this thread it. Mark Twain said "The government of my country snubs honest
simplicity but fondles artistic villainy. I think I might have developed into a very capable pick-pocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two."

"Building the future and keeping the past alive are one in the same thing. "- Solid Snake

"I have not yet begun to fight"
"In time of war, sell your cloak, and buy a sword'
"What? Me... worry?"
Semper Fortis

.. take it.

I think Yogi Berra said it.