21 Movie Quotes about Prohibition (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about prohibition, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 Prohibition law goes in next year.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

12 The Prohibition amendment is ratified by the necessary 36 states and becomes the law of the land.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

13 For already, America is feeling the effects of Prohibition.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

14 Sucker money. Ever since Prohibition, it's been floating around, waiting to get picked up.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

15 1922. By now, the Prohibition law is firmly a part of American life, but so is the evasion of that law.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

16 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president partially on the basis of his promise to end Prohibition.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

17 After 13 years, Prohibition is dead leaving in its wake a criminal element used to wealth and power...

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

18 Mom, it's prohibition.

Michael Keaton as Johnny Dangerously in Johnny Dangerously

19 Someday you'll get wise to the fact that the strong-arm stuff went out with prohibition.

Edward G. Robinson as Detective Johnny Blake in Bullets or Ballots (1939)

20 Oh, Josephine. The most wonderful thing happened. -What? -Guess. -They repealed Prohibition?

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar in Some Like It Hot

21 Movie Quotes about Prohibition (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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