“Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”
Will Rogers
“Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.”
Abraham Lincoln
“For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.”
Jello Biafra
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
W. C. Fields
“The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.”
William Orville Douglas
“A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three”
Italian Proverb
