The enactment of the 18th amendment to the US constitution introducing total prohibition in the United States and the subsequent repeal of that amendment by the 21st amendment show that the people of the United States came to the conclusion that the evils of prohibition were greater than the evils of drink. The working of prohibition in a number of states in India with its extensive distillation of illicit and deleterious liquor, the corruption among the police and tampering with panch witnesses in the courts gives no reason to believe that future experiments will be more successful. – H.M. Seervai, 4th edition, volume 3, pg. 3090.
(Hat tip: Anirudh Arunkumar)
