The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States.
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Famous quotes containing the words maine and/or law:
“Those Maine woods differ essentially from ours. There you are never reminded that the wilderness which you are threading is, after all, some villager’s familiar wood-lot, some widow’s thirds, from which her ancestors have sledded fuel for generations, minutely described in some old deed which is recorded, of which the owner has got a plan, too, and old bound-marks may be found every forty rods, if you will search.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)