Prohibition Quotes

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

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.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

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.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.