Liquor Laws Quotes

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

The State may, indeed, make the drinking of one drop of liquor an offense to be punished by imprisonment, but it would be an unheard-of cruelty if it should count the drops in a single glass and make thereby a thousand offenses, and thus extend the punishment for drinking the single glass of liquor to any imprisonment of almost indefinite duration.

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

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

Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Pints [of liquor] are very inconvenient in the house [the White House] as the article is not used in such small quantities.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.