Quotes About Liquor Prohibition

#1. 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

#2. Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind? An England torn between Catholic and Protestant.

Ella March Chase

#3. The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house.

Raymond Chandler

#4. If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#5. I'm about five seconds away from going to kick Jonathan's mom's ass, and then kicking her mom's ass afterward to teach them both a lesson.

Mariana Zapata

#6. Prohibition was better than no liquor at all.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

Peter Hoeg

#8. One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

Bruce Cockburn

#9. Society, you're a crazy breed.

Eddie Vedder

#10. Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Misery is a match that never goes out.

Thomas Huxley

#12. In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.

Malala Yousafzai

#13. Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Will Rogers

#14. I would love for 'The Goldbergs' to continue for as long as we can possibly let it happen, because it's my favorite thing I've ever done, and I can't imagine my life without it.

Hayley Orrantia

#15. Much of Texas took its prohibition seriously. Not Dalhart. It took its whiskey seriously, in part because some of the finest corn liquor in America was coming out of the High Plains.

Timothy Egan

#16. Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Miguel Gomes

#17. A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.

Simone De Beauvoir

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

Morgan Freeman

#19. Prohibition may be the greatest gift any government ever gave its citizens. A barrel of beer cost $4 to make and sold for $55. A case of spiritous liquor cost $20 to produce and earned $90
and all this without taxes.

Bill Bryson

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

Dave Barry

#21. People have a tendency to sometimes doubt when you tell them what you are going to do. But they can never deny the things you actually do.

Tony C. Skye