There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969
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However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCIf the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605