Prohibition Quotes - Page 3

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

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Pay, Crime

  "Does Crime Pay" in The Scandal Annual by the Paragon Project, p. 7, 1987.

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• Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

  Kurt Schmoke

  Drug, Libertarian, Violence

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Mind, Cannabis

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Attitude, War, Rehabilitation

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, Sticks, Should

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• It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, War, Drug

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• Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Sick

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Liberty, Given

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

  Robert Frost

  Rights, Political, Icy

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs is lost." But to demand a yes or no answer to the question "Is the war against drugs being won?" is like demanding a yes or no answer to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Never can an unimaginative and fundamentally stupid metaphor have exerted a more baleful effect upon proper thought.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  War, Stupid, Wife

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

  Orson Welles

  Marijuana, Light, Texas

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• Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.

  James Carriger Paine

  War, Successful, Trying

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• Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Weed, Marijuana, Jeans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Attitude, Ideas

  "Carlin's response? More than 7 dirty words", www.today.com. March 13, 2004.

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• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Presidential, Purpose

  Letter toWilliam E. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928.

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• We need to be acting responsible as adults, and I don't endorse in any way the irresponsible use of marijuana. But I do believe we have come to a point in our society where we need to end prohibition. We need to have taxed, regulated marijuana within American communities.

  Cory Booker

  Believe, Marijuana, Community

  Source: hightimes.com

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• The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.  The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.  The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

  Laozi

  Self, People, Subsidies

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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