Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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).
