Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man. — Frances M. Young Copy Share Image
As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I would decriminalize marijuana, but you step out of your house high and you bother somebody else in any way, shape or… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian… — Noah Webster 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 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
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923,… — Terence Winter 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
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
I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
We are losing the war against cancer... I would like to offer for your consideration the following legislative proposals on the following… — Samuel Epstein Copy Share Image
Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their… — Glenn Loury 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
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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