Alcohol Quote by Dave Barry

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

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

— Will Rogers

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

“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

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

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

— Ben Shapiro

“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great Depression.”

— Lance Dodes

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

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

— Gore Vidal

Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party of flapper…

— Sarah Weinman

“In 1913, the Anti-Saloon League attempted a constitutional amendment prohibiting liquor, but the movement didn't gain momentum until World War I, thanks to America's…

— Charles River Editors

“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