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Quote from Franklin P. Adams,


"Prohibition is an awful flop.  We like it. 
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.  We like it. 
It's left a trail of graft and slime,

It don't prohibit worth a dime, 
It's filled our land with vice and crime. 
Nevertheless, we're for it."


By:

Franklin P. Adams (more quotes by Franklin P. Adams or books by/about Franklin P. Adams)


(1881-1960)

"Conning Tower," New York World (February 1931)

Categories:

Corruption, Crime, Drugs, Hypocrisy, Prohibition, Vice, War

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