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Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

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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

topic: Government, Hazards, Prohibition

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There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

- Alberto Gonzales

source: "Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'". Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Transcript, thinkprogress.org. January 19, 2007.

topic: Constitution, Prohibition, Grants

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

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Evil, Mind, Prohibition

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

- Bernard Tschumi

source: Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.66, MIT Press

topic: Excess, Delight, Prohibition

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

topic: Cloning, January, Prohibition, Human Cloning

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

- Frank Gaffney

topic: Expression, Effort, Prohibition, Sharia, Multinationals

The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

- Janet Reno

topic: Goal, Prohibition, Firearms

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

- Jello Biafra

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Prohibition

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

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Drug, Causes, Prohibition

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

- Julian Tuwim

topic: Strong, Scratches, Prohibition

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?â€ â€œProhibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

- Libba Bray

topic: Mother, Drinking, Prohibition

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

topic: Entrepreneur, Negative, Prohibition

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

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Marijuana, Law, Prohibition, Marijuana Prohibition

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 Yosef

source: Jewish Chronicle (p. 22), October 11, 2013.

topic: Real, Prohibition, Easy, Torah, Rabbi

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

- Philip Gibbs

source: Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

topic: Fighting, Done, Prohibition

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

topic: Responsibility, Bedroom, Prohibition

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Prohibition

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

- Sinclair Lewis

topic: Facts, Cost, Prohibition, Humidity

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

- Thelonious Monk

topic: Party, House, Prohibition, Birthday Party

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

topic: Strong, People, Prohibition

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

topic: Evil, Trying, Prohibition

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

- Thomas Lansing Masson

topic: Water, May, Prohibition, Drunkenness

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Temptation, Liberty, Prohibition

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

- Peter McWilliams

source: Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

topic: Silly, Hemp, Prohibition

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

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Prohibition, Torture, Circumstances

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.

- Glenn Reynolds

topic: Government, Prohibition, Modern

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

- Gore Vidal

topic: People, Forgotten, Prohibition, Amnesia

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.

- Bertrand Russell