Carry Nation

“I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in my face.”

“I tell you, ladies, you don't know what you can do until you try.”

“Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”

“Good morning, destroyer of men's souls.”

“I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.”

“Oh, I'm a bulldog, running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like.”

“First I smash, and then I pray.”

“The loving moral influence of mothers must be liberated from the unjust subordination to the debased, selfish passion of man.”

“I never saw a man yet who was not improved by being thrashed.”

“A woman is stripped of everything by them. Her husband is torn from her, she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food, and her virtue.”

“The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than slavery.”

“That's all right, you are defending your hell-holes. I am fighting for the mothers and the children.”

“Some call me a devil; I am a saint compared to the saloon-keepers.”

“The liquor traffic is a cancer in society.”

“You have put the demon in my mouth.”

“I have done my duty.”