Alcohol Quote by Sam Branson

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 has made nothing but trouble

— Al Capone

The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government…

— Kurt Schmoke

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

— Mark Twain

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 more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

— Laozi

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

— Milton Friedman

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

— Milton Friedman

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

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of…

— Franklin P. Adams

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

“The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to the prohibitionist…

— Jeffrey Dhywood