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Prohibition Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
- Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience…
- 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…
- Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.
- There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils.…
More Prohibition Quotes
- Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik
- For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. — Jello Biafra
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a… — Bill Bryson
- Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang… — Drew Carey
- The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our… — Unknown Author
- It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George
- Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain
- Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could — Carrie Nation
- When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when… — John D. Rockefeller
- Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must… — George Soros