Truman Quote by David McCullough

“When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.”

— Robert Lautner

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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

“The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men…

— Raymond Chandler

“Fowler, Hines, and the rest of the city’s black clergymen claimed that the majority of D.C.’s citizens shared their opposition to Clarke’s bill.”

— James Forman Jr

“The more we drank, the louder we became. The waitstaff didn't seem to mind, but that was probably because it was late and there…

— Jamie McGuire

“In 2000, the Mississippi state legislature introduced a bill to make it illegal for a man to have an erection at a strip club…

— Steven Lamm

“One thing I remember with amazement about Chicago is that everyone knew everything before it was splayed lurid and naked in public; you never…

— Brian Doyle

“system and encouraging our clients’ friends to intimidate witnesses. More people read the Chronicle than the State Bar Journal, and the mayor”

— Sheldon Siegel

“This was the weird, scary stuff Denny and Mitch lived for. Every afternoon, they would gather up their papers to sell and hoof it…

— James Patterson

The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator…

— Jill Stein

“But having snuck into the room of this American and arranged for a message to be delivered, it suddenly occurred to the Count that…

— Amor Towles