John L. Sullivan is an icon or a legend in the world of heavy weight boxing. He was known as "Boston Strong Boy" but found later in his career to becoming addicted to alcohol and to selling alcoholic beverages (prohibition). Later on in his retirement, he had become an actor, speaker, and a prohibition lecturer.
He thought it was a reduction of personal liberty.
John L. Sullivan was a boxing legend. Even having drinking problems his entire life, he took a step ahead on stopping this practice. He decided to not dring anymore as long as he lived, but he had no hard feelings against a man who does. In his view If a man can take a drink and get away with it, so much the better, but yours truly has found long since that whiskey is not for him. He was against prohibition though. He thought it was a reduction of personal liberty.
