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Prohibition has made nothing but trouble
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'
Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.
The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.
I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
In the Sikh tradition there is no prohibition of showing your hair. It's not that hair cannot be seen. It's an identity, as opposed to having to cover your hair.
I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.