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

Prohibition is the trigger of crime. — Ian Fleming

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry

All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space — Arthur Miller

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear. — Ron Paul

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure. — Lawrence Durrell

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

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. — Vicente Fox

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. — Drew Carey

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

90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related. — Gary Johnson

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative. — Milton Friedman

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

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. — Dane DeHaan

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners. — Charles Dickens

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

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech. — Sylvia Boorstein

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

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

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

For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin ... — Augustine Of Hippo

Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is. — Karl R. Popper

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

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could — Carrie Nation

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

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal. — Janet Reno

His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page. — Jami Attenberg

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art. — Ian Caldwell

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy

The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition. — Theodore H. White

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe. — John Milton

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. — James Surowiecki

To be intensely educated about the horror of sin and then to be conquered by it. I tell myself that it must be prohibition that kindles fantasy — Umberto Eco

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today. — Ethan Nadelmann

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into — Don Marquis