Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor."
Prohibition quotes
Prohibition
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"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."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers."
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist
"In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity."
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"Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins."
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"People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia."
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"A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions."
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