PROHIBITION

Related Subjects: Abstinence, Liberty, Temperance

1. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.—Bible, Proverbs 9:17
   

2. John Barleycorn got up again,
   And sore surpris'd them all.—BURNS, John Barleycorn
   

3. Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.—AL CAPONE
   

4. Forbidden fruit a flavor has
   That lawful orchards mocks;
   How luscious lies the pea within
   The pod that Duty locks!—EMILY DICKINSON, Life
   

5. Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.—FRANKLIN, Autobiography
   

6. A law made to be habitually and openly violated is a frightful demoralizer of society. A law notoriously despised by many that appear as its public advocates, which takes many a vote from the same hand that an hour later is lifted trembling to the voter's lips with the draught that quiets at once his nerves and his conscience.—O. W. HOLMES
   

7. It is mighty difficult to get drunk on 2.75 per cent beer.—HERBERT HOOVER
   

8. All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gittin' it would be greatly simplified.—KIN HUBBARD, Abe Martin's Broadcast
   

9. As for prohibition, it is going to be recorded as one of the results of the European War, foreseen by nobody.—STEPHEN LEACOCK, The Woman Question
   

10. Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.—LINCOLN
    

11. "Much sweeter," she saith, "more acceptable
    Is drink, when it is stolen privily,
    Than when it is taken in form avowable."—JOHN LYDGATE, The Remedy of Love
    

12. So glister'd the dire Snake, and into fraud
    Led Eve, our credulous Mother, to the Tree
    Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

13. We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.—OVID, Art of Love
    

14. You cannot write on the banner of the Democratic party the skull and crossbones of an outlaw trade.—J. T. ROBINSON
    

15. The only way you can fight booze is by ceasing to make life chronically painful for the masses.—BERNARD SHAW
    

16. Things forbidden have a secret charm.—TACITUS, History
    

17. In the whole course of history, there's been no government that could alter the laws of nature. When by mere legislation man can stop fruit from fermenting of its own accord after it falls to the ground, he can talk about a law of prohibition. The very word destroys its meaning. You can't prohibit nature.—E. T. THURSTON, Mr. Bottleby Does Something
    

18. He found out a new thing—namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.—MARK TWAIN, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    

19. Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent ; then he would have eaten the serpent.—MARK TWAIN, Puddn'head Wilson's Calendar
    

20. In all matters having to do with the personal habits and customs of large numbers of our people, we must be certain that the established processes of legal change are followed.—WOODROW WILSON