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GOVERNMENT > president, lawyer > Abraham Lincoln
Prohibition goes beyond...
Vendor: GOVERNMENT
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
Source: Speech, 18 Dec 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives.
-- Abraham Lincoln, (Feb 12 1809-1865), US president, lawyer; He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Address, 1863.