(132 quotes found)
“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
“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
“The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.”
William Orville Douglas
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
W. C. Fields
“Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.”
“Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work”
“For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.”
Jello Biafra
“prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into”
Don Marquis
“A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three”
Italian Proverb
