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
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
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
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
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the… — Albert Einstein 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
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state:… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From… — John George Haigh Copy Share Image
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking. Second-order consequences… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...… — Mark Thornton Copy Share Image
Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users… — Sebastian Marincolo Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“The support many Progressives lent to Prohibition reflected that naiveté, and though the Progressive Movement began to dissipate during World War I,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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