“I make money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers…of the best people in Chicago are as guilty as me.”— Al Capone, smithsonianmag.com
“I do not accept such a prohibition…if ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.”— Joan of Arc, indiana.edu
“We should legalize drugs the same way we legalize alcohol and smoking, and then let those people have to deal with the consequences of their actions. But you can't prohibit it—it doesn't work, it didn't work in the twenties, it doesn't work today.”— Al Goldstein, jimgoad.net
“America had become an ice cream society in the last years of the twenties, thanks in large part to Prohibition. Bars and fine lounges in hotels sold ice cream, because they could no longer sell liquor, and dairy bars began to crop up all over the country. It was an incredible era.”— Ray Kroc, amazon.com