The Eighteenth Amendment may refer to:
- The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established Prohibition
- The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which permitted the state to ratify the Amsterdam Treaty
- The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which reduced the powers of the President of Pakistan
- Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment, an episode of the television series The Simpsons
Famous quotes containing the words eighteenth and/or amendment:
“F.R. Leavis’s “eat up your broccoli” approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel—for the eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions—did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“... when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses were always hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon to-day has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)