Western Christian (Ohio) Advocate.
Great evils die hard. Clara Barton.
Don’t drink. A. Lincoln.
Cold water,—the only beverage I have used, or allowed, in my family. A. Lincoln.
The saloon, the most blighting curse;—liquor traffic, the tragedy of civilization—I am a practical prohibitionist. A. Lincoln.
Intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all the evils among mankind. A. Lincoln.
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims there is not one slave nor drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.
A. Lincoln—(In a letter to George E. Pickett.)
Although the temperance cause has been in progress for nearly twenty years, it is apparent to all that it is just now being crowned with a degree of success hitherto unparalleled.—Hail, full of fury! Reign of reason, all hail! A. Lincoln, February 22, 1842.
Humanity is the peculiar characteristic of great minds.