I spent my life mixin' with your breed, and I don't like it. Get me. You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers and po...liticians with the gimmes, writs of habeas corpus, witnesses that don't remember overnight, but we'll get through to you, just like we got all the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do ...this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During Prohibition days, when South Carolina was actively advertising the iodine content of its vegetables, the Hell Hole brand of... 'liquid corn' was notorious with its waggish slogan: 'Not a Goiter in a Gallon.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen:... A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But yet that holden this tale a folly, As of a fox, or of a cock and hen,... Taketh the morality, good men. For Saint Paul saith that all that written is, To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis; Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Macrobius, that writ the avision In Afrique of the worthy Scipio,... Affirmeth dreams, and sayeth that they been Warning of thinges that men after seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a Book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light,... On which the eyes of God not rarely look,
A chronicle of actions just and bright-- There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine; And since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit... Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We shall exchange our material thinking for something quite different, and we shall all be kin. We shall all be enfranchised, proh...ibition will prevail, many wrongs will be righted, vampires and grafters and slackers will be relegated to a class by themselves, stiff necks will limber up, hearts of stone will be changed to hearts of flesh, and little by little we shall begin to understand each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While I shall not vote for the prohibition amendment, I would like to see a good, wholesome expression of temperance sentiment....... Personally I do not resort to force--not even the force of law--to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example--of fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »