The Saloon Problem and Social Reform

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Everett Press, 1905 - 212 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 86 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this...
Σελίδα 105 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Σελίδα 65 - By the general concurrence of opinion of every civilized and Christian community, there are few sources of crime and misery to society equal to the dramshop, where Intoxicating liquors, in small quantities, to be drunk at the time, are sold indiscriminately to all parties applying.
Σελίδα 5 - Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity...
Σελίδα 133 - To redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States...
Σελίδα 147 - Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Σελίδα 102 - I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch— AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Σελίδα 119 - In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail ; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Σελίδα 112 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Σελίδα 129 - The injury, it is true, first falls upon him in his health, which the habit undermines; in his morals, which it weakens; and in the self-abasement which it creates. But as it leads to neglect of business and waste of property and general demoralization it affects those who are immediately connected with and dependent upon him.

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