Temperance

Famous quotes containing the word temperance:

    In 1869 he started his work for temperance instigated by three drunken men who came to his home with a paper signed by a saloonkeeper and his patrons on which was written “For God’s sake organize a temperance society.”
    —Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)