"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to……" — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."
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Thomas Jordan Jarvis
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13 Quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Thomas Jordan Jarvis has 13 quotes on this site.
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There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
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We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition…
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I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal…
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In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
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Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them…
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The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
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Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum…
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It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and…
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I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do…
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I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.
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I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and…
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The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble…
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very…
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When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that…
— Conrad Black
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I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working…
— John Boehner
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My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
— John Boehner
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
— Edward de Bono
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The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to…
— Brandon Boyd
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When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
— David Brenner
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
— Malin Akerman
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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of…
— Jimmy Buffett
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
— Charles Bukowski
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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar…
— Jason Aldean
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