Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-08-14 Aug 14, 2006The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.~ Adolf HitlerBlessings of the state, blessings of the masses. ... Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.~ Big BrotherConformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.~ Isaiah Berlin Aug 11, 2006The goal of legalizing drugs is to bring them under effective legal control. If it were legal to produce and distribute drugs, legitimate businessmen would enter the business. There would be less need for violence and corruption since the industry would have access to the courts. And, instead of absorbing tax dollars as targets of expensive enforcement efforts, the drug sellers might begin to pay taxes. So, legalization might well solve the organized crime aspects of the drug trafficking problem. On average, drug use under legalization might not be as destructive to users and to society as under the current prohibition, because drugs would be less expensive, purer, and more conveniently available.~ National Institute of JusticeThe victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.~ Charles Caleb ColtonEverything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.~ Menander Aug 10, 2006One topic that has only recently begun to attract attention is the Nazi anti-tobacco movement. Germany had the world's strongest antismoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, supported by Nazi medical and military leaders worried that tobacco might prove a hazard to the race. Many Nazi leaders were vocal opponents of smoking. Anti-tobacco activists pointed out that whereas Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt were all fond of tobacco, the three major fascist leaders of Europe -- Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco -- were all non-smokers.~ Robert N. ProctorThe German woman does not smoke!~ Nazi sloganWhen choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.~ Mae West Aug 9, 2006Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.~ Benjamin FranklinIf you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat -- in other words, turn you into an adult.~ P. J. O'RourkeMany politicians... are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool... who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Aug 8, 2006Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.~ William F. Buckley, Jr.The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.~ Eric HofferThe voice of the majority is no proof of justice.~ Johann von Schiller Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print