Made Quote by Al Capone

There is pain in prohibition

— Anonymous

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

— Nellie L. McClung

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

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

— Milton Friedman

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond t he…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— Milton Friedman

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

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

— Mark Twain

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

— Will Rogers

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the…

— Anonymous

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

— Pope Benedict XVI