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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Thomas Lansing Masson
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in… — Milton Friedman
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to… — Israel Shenker
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes… — Emile Durkheim
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. — Frank Gaffney
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a… — Noam Chomsky
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
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 graft… — Franklin P. Adams
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. — Laozi
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. — Frances Wright
Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. — William Shakespeare
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man… — Stephen Leacock
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work. — Will Rogers
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 rule… — Orson Welles
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the… — Albert Gallatin
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see… — Will Rogers
Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging… — Ethan Nadelmann
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of… — Pierre Trudeau
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of… — Jimmy Carter
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. — Philip Gibbs
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. — Benjamin Disraeli
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. — W.C. Fields
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them. — Bill Hicks

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