We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
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.
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
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.
The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.
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.
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could
The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.