December 2001
Drinking and Sobriety Throughout History
Excerpts from a speech given to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, February 1842
IN MY JUDGMENT, such of us who have never fallen victims [to drunken-ness] have been spared more by the absence of appetite than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. Indeed, I believe if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
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