Definition of Prohibition
Prohibition
The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
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Prohibition Quotations
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
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
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will Rogers
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
George Soros
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt
For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
Jello Biafra
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Prohibition Translations
prohibition in German is Verbot
prohibition in Italian is divieto
prohibition in Latin is prohibitio
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