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• The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law.
  For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced....
• The prestige of the government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law.
  For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced....
• Alcohol prohibition didn't work; drug prohibition doesn't work
  gun prohibition won't work. -- Clayton E. Cramer, optilink!crame...
• If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation.
  That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime....
• Why do we expect our Presidents to control destiny when they cannot even control the House of Representatives?
  -- Russell Bake...
• With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, .
  ..to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations....
• At first, I thought prohibition was a good thing. People were drinking more and having a lot more fun.
  Without beer, prohibition doesn't work! -- Homer, missing the point in the word "prohibition, "Homer vs....
• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)...
• The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes so many of them.
  -- Abraham Lincol...