Awful Quote by Franklin P. Adams

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

— Milton Friedman

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

— Al Capone

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

— Rhys Ifans

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond t he…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force…

— William Randolph Hearst

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

— J. Jayalalithaa

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

— Pope Benedict XVI

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

— Nellie L. McClung

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

— Gore Vidal