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Quotes about Prohibition

You know statistics have proven that listening to prohibition lecturers has driven more people to drink than any other cause.
— Will Rogers
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
— Will Rogers
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
— Thomas Jefferson
God said to me, "You are not to build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood." 1 Chronicles 28:3
— Beth Moore
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
— Will Rogers
And thus the law is indeed good, because it is prohibition of sin, and death is evil because it is the wages of sin; but as wicked men make an evil use not only of evil, but also of good things, so the righteous make a good use not only of good, but also of evil things. Whence it comes to pass that the wicked make an ill use of the law, though the law is good; and that the good die well, though death is an evil.
— St. Augustine
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
— Pope Benedict XVI
The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God's prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.
— Gregory Boyd
Love is the central command in Scripture and judgment the central prohibition. Indeed, judgment is the "original sin" in Scripture. This is why the forbidden tree in the center of the garden—the prohibition around which life in the garden revolved—was called the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil."
— Gregory Boyd
I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.
— Ernest Hemingway
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
— Billy Sunday
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
— Billy Sunday