Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

“The drug smuggling today had, as its godparents, the bootleggers nearly a hundred years ago. The syndicates, the systems, the psyches were created back…

— Louise Penny

To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys"…

— Brock Yates

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay…

— Danny Sugerman

Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three…

— John Harvey Kellogg

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and…

— Thomas Szasz

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking.   Second-order consequences of Prohibition:…

— Sebastian Marshall

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient…

— Italo Calvino

“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange…

— Gary Taubes

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em…

— Kin Hubbard

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

— Bill Hicks

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms…

— Pierre Trudeau

“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.”

— Donald O'Donovan

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not…

— Sam Branson