"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

Man, Men, Hell, Office, School

25

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Man, Pretty

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

John F. Kennedy, American President

Man, Men, May, Pride

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Man, Men, People, Worth

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Man, Men, Experience, Genius, Gain

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man,

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Man, Play, World

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Man, May

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Man, Open, Question

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Man, Men, Gratitude, Desire, Nothing

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Pain

Explore more quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

"The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be."

Friendship, Home, Citizenship, Friends, May

"I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on."

People, End, Liquor, May

"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."

Man, Men, Hell, Office, School

"There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them."

Man, Men, Conflict, School

"Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children."

Money, Women, Children, Liquor

"I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys."

Friendship, Boys, Effort, Friends, Influence

"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."

Evil, Prohibition, Will

"The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county."

People, Welfare

"I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county."

Politics, Open, Vote

"It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people."

People, Joy, Law, State