World war Quote by Charles River Editors

“That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition…

— Jack London

“Prohibition was better than no liquor at all.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap…

— Henry Ford

“Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States with the French Republic. METZ, October 12.—While examining”

— Various

“If they had saloons then, and I don’t doubt but that they had, for we read that there was “violence in the land,” and…

— D.L. Moody

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

— Dave Barry

“The Volstead Act, prohibiting the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” became law on January 17, 1920. Prohibition didn’t prohibit much, and incited…

— Sarah Churchwell

“The United States had one year to prepare for Prohibition from its ratification on January 16, 1919, and in those 12 months, many people,…

— Charles River Editors

“In the 18th century, cheap, unregulated spirits flooded the market, resulting in more individuals turning to alcoholism. The wave of new immigrants—groups like the…

— Charles River Editors

“Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century”

— Tom Acitelli

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A case in point was the Eighteenth Amendment which, for the thirteen years it was in effect, was decried because it gave the government…

— Frank Chodorov