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

- Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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…

- Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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

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

- Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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 traffi…

- Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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

- Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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

- Thomas Jordan Jarvis