War On Drugs Quotes - Page 2

• There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Drug, Intellectual

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• Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were

  Tony Hillerman

  War, Teenager, Oklahoma

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• While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  War, Organization, Drug

  Statement, May 1908.

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• The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

  Holly Near

  War, Community, Drug

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• Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

  Mel Carnahan

  War, Commitment, Successful

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• 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.

  Larry Elder

  War, Stupid, People

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.253, Macmillan

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• We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.

  Peter McWilliams

  Attitude, War, Epidemics

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• The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.

  George Jung

  War, Mean, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

  David Simon

  War, Class, Names

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• I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed

  Pamela Alexander

  Country, War, Marijuana

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• We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

  Ethan Nadelmann

  War, Believe, Kids

  "Reformer Profile: Ethan Nadelmann" by Steve Beitler, stopthedrugwar.org. August 10, 2001.

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  If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs.

  Gary Johnson

  War, Marijuana, Drug

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• Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Government, Punishment

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• Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?

  Ralph Nader

  War, Marijuana, Government

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• Just plain logic says that the war on drugs does not work. It absolutely does not work. We have this highly addictive legal drug called tobacco which has never resulted in people being sent to prison, but there has been a massive reduction in its consumption simply because responsible adults looking at their own bodies have said they don't want to do that to themselves.

  Graham Hancock

  War, People, Drug

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• If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

  Neal Boortz

  War, Support, Drug

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Prison Population, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  War, Drug, Today

  "Guatemalan President Praises Colorado and Washington for Marijuana Legalization at UN Speech" By Daniel Robelo, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Thinking, Marijuana

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• Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Numbers, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory, sometimes life sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level.

  Ron Paul

  Cancer, War, Marijuana

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Eye, Men

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• People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  War, People, Drug

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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