Action Quote by Samuel Smiles

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

— Samuel Smiles

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Mark Twain

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

The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known…

— Gore Vidal

“Exogenous and blind interpretation of statutes, topped with hustled implementation of laws by the corporates, leads only to more turmoil and less productivity.”

— Henrietta Newton Martin

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

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

— Milton Friedman

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey…

— Vladimir Putin

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

— Napoleon Bonaparte