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13 quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Thomas Jordan Jarvis (January 18, 1836 – June 17, 1915) was the 44th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1879 to 1885. Jarvis later served as a U.S. Senator from 1894 to 1895, and helped establish East Carolina Teachers Training School in 1907.
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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.

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I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

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

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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.

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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... →

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Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they... →

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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... →

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

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

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