Quotes about Prohibition

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

And the swine… is unclean to you.Of their flesh shall ye not eat.

Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted. "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.' Have you studied the Mentat in your service?

The Lord, however, not only forbids any image of himself to be erected by a statuary, but to be formed by any artist whatever, because every such image is sinful and insulting to his majesty.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.