| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 36 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ABRAHAM LINCOLN, address before the Springfield [Illinois] Washingtonian Temperance Society, February 22, 1842.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 278 (1953). |
| SUBJECTS: | Alcohol |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Abraham Lincoln Collection | | |
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