Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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