Quotes About Prohibition

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Remember the Kentucky night-riders? Remember how trainloads of people have gone to enjoy lynchings? Not happen here? Prohibition—shooting down people just because they might be transporting liquor—no, that couldn't happen in America! Why, where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours! We're ready to start on a Children's Crusade—only of adults—right now, and the Right Reverend

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.

They were not altogether to blame. They were the products of Prohibition, mass production, and an education dominated by the beliefs that one goes to college to become acquainted with people who will later be useful in business, and that the greatness of a university is in ratio to the number of its students and the number of its athletic victories.

Prohibition had turned drinking from an agreeable, not very important accompaniment to gossip into a craze.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid, " I smirk. "We can't breathe batteryacid, can we?

To prohibit what they think pernicious, is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction.

It was just that - Gabby's common sense came to the rescue. Quill was an uncommonly handsome man. His eyes made her feel weak in the knees and warm in the belly. / The problem, Gabby rationalized, is that Father never allowed me to have anything to do with men. So now I am overcome by the species in general.

The wealth of Venice and Genoa was made in trade with infidels of Syria and Egypt despite papal prohibition.

There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

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Everything other than working was forbidden: walking in the streets, having fun, singing, dancing, getting together, everything was forbidden.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

I come from a family where two wheelers were not allowed. No seriously not even a tiny cycle around the compound.

I used to love the '20s.

In Alaska, it's against the law to look for a moose from an airplane.

The practice was banned after, inevitably, someone lost an eye. Mothers around the world were smug.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious

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

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed.

Noli me tangere, noli me legere, noli me videre, noli me