"I was against the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. I was also against the Mann Act. Not because I want to get drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct. . .
"As long as we've got prohibition, I'd like to give it long enough to work itself out. ... If we keep it 100...
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