Temperance Society Quote by Charles River Editors

“Puritans used this doctrine when assessing Native American and African strangers, ensuring intolerance from the start in their land of tolerance.18 Beginning”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“In the 18th century, a new awareness of the problem emerged and people, especially women, "occasionally banded together to try to persuade, cajole or…

— Charles River Editors

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great Depression.”

— Lance Dodes

“There was also a deliberate exploitation of prejudiced mentalities among their listeners by revivalist preachers such as Billy Sunday. Above all, there was a…

— Charles River Editors

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

“It reminded me of something that James Madison said in 1788: “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of…

— Ronald Reagan

The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in…

— Bertrand Russell

“Prohibition kills, education saves lives”

— Dominic Milton Trott

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

— Bryan Fischer

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and…

— Hugh Hefner

“Prohibition is the trigger of crime.”

— Ian Fleming