Behind closed doors Quote by Mark Twain

“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

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

— Dan Quayle

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

— Thomas Jefferson

Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

— Harry J. Anslinger

I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but…

— William Magee

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

— Randy Barnett

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

— Charles Evans Hughes

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

— Jimmy Carter

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but…

— James Carriger Paine

If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no…

— Saint John Chrysostom

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

— Ron Paul