“The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition. — Ring Lardner, Jr Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything?… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Under the dual sovereignty principle, the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on double jeopardy - which prevents the government from trying someone twice for… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“The United States had one year to prepare for Prohibition from its ratification on January 16, 1919, and in those 12 months,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard… — Albert Gallatin Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction:… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.” — Mona Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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