Quote of the Day – Prohibition Editon

In the fight between law and appetite, bet on appetite.

In the fight between law and appetite, bet on appetite. And: Americans then were, and let us hope still are, magnificently ungovernable by elected nuisances.” – George Will, in an otherwise unremarkable column about the lessons of Prohibition which, as Julian Sanchez notes, inexplicably avoids mentioning the current drug war.

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