Carrie Nation Quotes

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No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you — you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil — talk to me face to face.

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A Pittsburgh factory is making me a lot of hatchets on which will be the words: 'Carry Nation's Loving Home Defenders. Smash the Saloon and build up the home.'

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The success of life, the formation of character, is in proportion to the courage one has to say to one's ownself: Thou shalt not.

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Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

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It is not possible to make a bad law. If it is bad, it is not a law.

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Washington's capitol is a reproach to common decency, this government like a fish, 'stinks worse at the head.'

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Carrie Nation

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Born: November 25, 1846

Died: June 9, 1911 (aged 64)

Bio: Carrie Amelia Moore Nation was an American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. She is particularly noteworthy for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet.

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