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“Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he and Eric Holder did make some adjustments in terms of the use of the Department of Justice, on the federal level. You saw ratcheting back of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration. You also saw, on the part of some certain states, a realization that they followed the war on drugs to a useless place, that they were only doing damage to communities, and bankrupting budgets with prison construction.”

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Author:David Simon

“The thing I wrote we ought to look to Canada for is the shorter sentences. I mean, the mess we're in here, is because of the drug war and this idea of adding another five years, another 10 years, you know, like it means nothing to the people involved. It certainly does nothing for crime prevention - what problem are we hoping to solve?”

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Author:Peter Moskos

“When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and to get hippies...that to me is just as shitty as saying all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Or all Muslims. That's what I'm paying attention to. And everybody is hedging their bets when it comes to marijuana. The government is sitting on this lie saying it's a gateway drug.”

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Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.”

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Author:Barry McCaffrey

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.”

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Author:Tacitus

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

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

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Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.”

“Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”

“Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!”

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Author:Robert Burns

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?”

“Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself”

Source: White House Diary

“Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded.”

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Author:Pat Robertson

“The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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Author:Gary Johnson

“Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.”

“"On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."”

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Author:John Hickenlooper

“Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.”

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Author:Juan Manuel Santos

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

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Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“We respect and support the example set by President José Mujica of Uruguay in proposing legislation that regulates the cannabis market”

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Author:Otto Perez Molina

“Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington”

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Author:Otto Perez Molina

“We join the call from other States from our region”

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Author:Laura Chinchilla

“Like Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay and others, Mexico believes that we should evaluate internationally agreed upon policies and search for a more effective and comprehensive response”

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Author:Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena

“We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results”

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Author:Otto Perez Molina

“I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.”

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Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!”

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Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.”

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Author:George McGovern

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

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.”

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Book:The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator

Source: The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator

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

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

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Book:1984

Source: 1984

“Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.”

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Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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

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Author:Joseph Goebbels

“The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.”

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Book:The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325

Source: The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325

“We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.”

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Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon