Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of people. It seemed to me best to go back to the old situation in which, if a man or woman drank to excess, they were injuring themselves and their immediate family and friends and the act was a violation against their own sense of morality and no violation against the law of the land. (14 July 1939)

I was one of those who was very happy when the original prohibition amendment passed. I thought innocently that a law in this country would automatically be co…

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain t…

'I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.' (2003)

Good laws are produced by bad actions.

If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, …