Definition of Prohibition

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Definition of Prohibition
	Prohibition The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages. Related Definitions: Act, Action, Alcoholic, As, By, Declaration, Forbidding, Injunction, Interdict, Law, Of, Or, Prohibiting, Sale, Some, Specifically, The

Prohibition Quotations

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

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

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

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will Rogers

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
Al Capone

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.

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

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

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

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

Prohibition Translations

prohibition in German is Verbot
prohibition in Italian is divieto
prohibition in Latin is prohibitio

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