Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

Famous quotes containing the words prohibition, mixed, marriages and/or act:

    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 man’s appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Haiti is full of nonsense and superstition. They’re always mixed up with a lot of mysteries that’ll turn your hair gray.
    —Garnett Weston. Victor Halperin. Dr. Brunner (Joseph Cawthorn)

    If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    People start parades—politicians just get out in front and act like they’re leading.
    Dana Gillman Rinehart (b. 1946)