Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal. — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. — Roger Q Mills Copy Share Image
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is… — Ethan Nadelmann Copy Share Image
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts...wets, drys, and hypocrites. — Florence Sabin Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were… — Rodney S. Quinn Copy Share Image
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
“Prohibition may be the greatest gift any government ever gave its citizens. A barrel of beer cost $4 to make and sold… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
“According to Levi and Heller, "by the 1920s Cuba had become a haven for revelers escaping American Prohibition against alcohol, horse racing,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber.… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A different day. – Even if the experiment of Biblical times supported the argument that it is the abuse of light wines… — Deets Pickett Copy Share Image
Pope Francis said the use of contraception could be justified in regions hit by the Zika virus; a stance that could reignite… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“with that characteristic touch of late-Romanov rashness, the government, by ukase of August 22, extended prohibition for the duration of the war.… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image