"Prohibition, whether of the use of alcohol or anything else we may want or wish to do, will never develop in us or any people self control, a sense of social responsibility, or the ability to make wise choices for ourselves."

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Part of her 1931 announcement that she was opposed to the Eighteenth Amendment and was joining the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform

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