Prohibition Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

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.

Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

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.

America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.

A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

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.

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

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

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.

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.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

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

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

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

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.

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

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

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

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

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