Loretta Lynn Quotes

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.

The country is being flooded with illegal liquor and that either Congress will need to modify the law or spend incalculable sums to enforce it [Prohibition].

Illegal stills had always been plentiful in the South, so Prohibition there did not have the bite that it had in the North.

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

Prohibition begets proliferation

Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a business man. When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lake Shore Drive [in Chicago] it's hospitality.

Prohibition created more drunks than anything else.

[Describing Prohibition:] Politicians are ducking, candidates are hedging, the Anti-Saloon League is prospering, people are being poisoned, bootleggers are being enriched, and Government officials are being corrupted.

Prohibition is a Constitutional mandate and I hold it absolutely necessary to give it a fair and thorough trial.

The saloon is as dead as slavery.

I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.

Booze' was once a popular term in the slang or 'cant' of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today.

Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.