Alcohol Quote by Bill Bryson

“Americans—those who liked or needed alcohol—had the same desire to drink and were still able, and the country´s criminals grew prosperous due to the…

— Charles River Editors

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was…

— Terence Winter

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

The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government…

— Kurt Schmoke

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

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but…

— James Carriger Paine

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we…

— Drew Carey

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

— Gore Vidal

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists.…

— H. L. Mencken

In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled…

— Owen Jones

When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil…

— John D. Rockefeller

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has…

— Bertrand Russell