Prohibition Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

— Milton Friedman

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

— Al Capone

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

— Milton Friedman

“Prohibitionism is based on the premise that citizens will refrain from behaviors that are deemed immoral or harmful if such behaviors are decreed unlawful…

— Jeffrey Dhywood

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 trail of…

— Franklin P. Adams

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

— Rhys Ifans

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force…

— William Randolph Hearst

There is pain in prohibition

— Anonymous

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

— Mark Twain

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

— Frances E. Willard