quotes about Prohibition
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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.
-- Albert Gallatin -
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
-- Alberto GonzalesSource : "Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'". Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Transcript, thinkprogress.org. January 19, 2007.
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Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
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Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
-- Bernard TschumiSource : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.66, MIT Press
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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.
-- Cliff Stearns -
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
-- Frank Gaffney -
The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.
-- Janet Reno -
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For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
-- Jello BiafraSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.
-- Jesse Ventura -
Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.
-- Julian Tuwim -
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.
-- Libba Bray -
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We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
-- Morgan Freeman -
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.
-- Ovadia YosefSource : Jewish Chronicle (p. 22), October 11, 2013.
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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
-- Philip GibbsSource : Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”
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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.
-- Pierre Trudeau -
Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
-- Sinclair Lewis -
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
-- Thelonious Monk -
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We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.
-- Theodore L. Cuyler -
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
-- Thomas Jordan Jarvis -
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
-- Thomas Lansing Masson -
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
-- William Hazlitt -