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Posted by: populist 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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I believe it was Confuscius that said, "A society of prohibitions becomes a society of vices", or something similar. The more we fight against something we don't like but doesn't actually harm us, the more widespread this behavior becomes.

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    mntnman4443 months, 3 weeks ago

    "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance,it is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a mans appetite by legislation and makes a crime of things that are not crimes.A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded".

    -Abraham Lincoln 1840

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