If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages
Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.
The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.
Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
Sick minds like to prohibit; healthy minds like to free!
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.
When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here. " Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.
Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
The only thing we should prohibit is violence.
