Habits Quote by Frank Chodorov

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists.…

— H. L. Mencken

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever…

— Libba Bray

The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and…

— Pete Coors

Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

— Samael Aun Weor

“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict…

— Noel B. Reynolds

“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

“In the 18th century, a new awareness of the problem emerged and people, especially women, "occasionally banded together to try to persuade, cajole or…

— Charles River Editors

“The problem wasn't drinking. The problem was people. And what they needed wasn't a new law; what they needed was a new heart.”

— Siri Mitchell

It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came…

— Joyce Lee Malcolm

“Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.”

— Mark Twain

“Even without Article 21, the state does not have the power to deprive a person of his life and liberty without the authority of…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“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