Quotes and Sayings about Prohibition
"For every prohibition you create you also create an underground."
- Jello Biafra
(Related: Prohibition)
"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.
(Related: People, Harm, Madness, Prohibition, Value)
"Prohibition has made nothing but trouble."
- Al Capone
(Related: Nothing, Prohibition, Trouble)
"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
(Related: America, Crime, Liquor, Now, Problems, Prohibition)
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."
- W. C. Fields
(Related: Food, Nothing, Prohibition, Water)
"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."
- Philip Gibbs
(Related: Fighting, Prohibition)
"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
(Related: War, Poison, Prohibition)
"If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them."
- Benjamin Hawkins
(Related: Prohibition, Will)
"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Prohibition, Temptation)
"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
(Related: Evil, Prohibition, Will)
"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
(Related: Country, Laws, Prohibition)
"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
(Related: Time, War, Attitude, May, Prohibition, Protest, Temperance)
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Beer, Prohibition, Want)
"A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Care, Man)
"Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud."
- Roger Q. Mills
(Related: Fraud, Prohibition)
"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
(Related: Age, Religion, Church, Country, Prohibition, State)
"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
(Related: Money, People, Earth, Giving, Learning, Prohibition, Race, Years)
"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
(Related: People, Americans, Earth, Learning, Prohibition, Race, Years)
"Prohibition is better than no liquor at all."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Liquor, Prohibition)
"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
(Related: Alcohol, Laws, Now, Prohibition, Respect, states)
"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
(Related: Congress, Legislation, Nations, Prohibition, Sense)
"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
(Related: Virtue, Crime, Prohibition)
"Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God."
- Rowan D. Williams
(Related: God, Sex, Character, Christian, Bible, Living, Teaching)