From: Baudouin F. Petit

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded".

---Attributed To: Abraham Lincoln, Speech in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dec 18,

1840. It also appears on page 544 of the Congressional Record-House for December 22, 1914.

Lincoln was quoted by Rep. Robert L. Henry of Texas.