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.
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
[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.
I produce schnapps on my farm but I'm not fond of drinking it.
Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
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.
They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.
Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.
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.
In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
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.
Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.
