Prohibition Quotes

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers

Good, Money, Learning

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

Learning, Why, Earth

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

Food, Live, Nothing

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will Rogers

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.

Done, Far, Face

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt

Find, Temptation

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
Martin Scorsese

Time, Good, Powerful

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
Michael Badnarik

Money, Pay, Market

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis

Makes, Beer, Cry

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
Jello Biafra

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
Dixie Lee Ray

Age, Religion, Country

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
George Soros

Respect, Alcohol, Individual

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Drew Carey

America, Problems, Rise

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
Leon Panetta

Law, Individual, Either

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
Vicente Fox

Work, Garden, Apple

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Time, War, Attitude

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.
Cliff Stearns

Human, Sense, Congress

The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Gary Johnson

Country, Put, Stop

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.
Michael Pitt

Wonderful, Start, Story

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Philip Gibbs

Done, Fighting, Individual

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Evil, Try, Seen

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Otto Hahn

War, Knew, Poison

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.
Danny Sugerman

Black, Pay, Crime

If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them.
Benjamin Hawkins

Indians, Repeating, Oblige

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud.
Roger Q. Mills

Fraud, Introduced, Nursed

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
Al Capone

Nothing, Made, Trouble

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