Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do ...this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During Prohibition days, when South Carolina was actively advertising the iodine content of its vegetables, the Hell Hole brand of... 'liquid corn' was notorious with its waggish slogan: 'Not a Goiter in a Gallon.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castle...s is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing, neither acceptance nor prohibition, will induce a child to stop swearing overnight. Teach your child respect for himself ...and others, that profanity can hurt, offend, and disgust, and you'll be doing the best you can...And save your parental giggling over mispronounced curses for after the children's bedtime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had never learned to live without delight. And he would have to learn to, just as, in a Prohibition country, he supposed he wou...ld have to learn to live without sherry. Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may be even pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission; they must also be able to represent to the child... a deep, an almost somatic conviction that there is a meaning to what they are doing. Ultimately, children become neurotic not from frustrations, but from the lack or loss of societal meaning in these frustrations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We shall exchange our material thinking for something quite different, and we shall all be kin. We shall all be enfranchised, proh...ibition will prevail, many wrongs will be righted, vampires and grafters and slackers will be relegated to a class by themselves, stiff necks will limber up, hearts of stone will be changed to hearts of flesh, and little by little we shall begin to understand each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While I shall not vote for the prohibition amendment, I would like to see a good, wholesome expression of temperance sentiment....... Personally I do not resort to force--not even the force of law--to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example--of fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enf...orce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »