Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed to National Prohibition. ... I think it is a mixing of the National Government in a matter that should be one of local settlement. I think sumptuary laws are matters for parochial adjustment. I think it will vest in the National Government, and those who administer it, so great a power as to be dangerous in political matters...
...would be in favor of State Prohibition if I thought Prohibition prohibited, but I think in the long run except in local communities where the majority of the citizens are in favor of the law, it will be violated...
...enforced and as such demoralize the enforcement of all laws. ... I am not in favor of a national amendment which should force twelve or fifteen great States into a sumptuary system which the public opinion and the real practices of the people of those States would not support. I think it is most unwise to fasten upon the United States a prohibitory system under the excitement of the War, which I do not hesitate to say every sensible supporter of Prohibition in the end will regret...
...States which wish to do so prohibit. ... I don't drink myself at all, and I don't oppose Prohibition on the ground that it limits the liberties of the people. I think that in the interest of the community, and of the man who can not resist the temptation to drink in excess, if he has the opportunity to drink at all, other citizens in the community may be properly asked and compelled to give up drinking, although that drinking may do them no injury. My objections to Prohibition are as I have stated them above...
...think that prohibition is a decided question of the campaign and that each candidate is entitled to a fair statement on the stand of his opponent. Each has a right to a frank answer on the prohibition question...