More importantly, Longworth viewed wine as a critical piece of the temperance movement.
Resistance to “The Star-Spangled Banner” also flared among blacks, pacifists, and advocates of temperance.
This from the leader of the temperance movement in Radville?
Economy may be styled the daughter of Prudence, the sister of temperance, and the mother of Liberty.
temperance in diet and exercise, with frequent washing and bathing, are the best means of preserving a healthful countenance.
But let me ask you another question: Has excess of pleasure any affinity to temperance?
Do you observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that temperance was a sort of harmony?
Certainly, he said, that is the true account of temperance whether in the State or individual.
Justice and health of mind will be of the company, and temperance will follow after?
Nothing is said of the pre-existence of ideas of justice, temperance, and the like.
mid-14c., "self-restraint, moderation," from Anglo-French temperaunce (mid-13c.), from Latin temperantia "moderation," from temperans, present participle of temperare "to moderate" (see temper). Latin temperantia was used by Cicero to translate Greek sophrosyne "moderation." In English, temperance was used to render Latin continentia or abstinentia, specifically in reference to drinking alcohol and eating; hence by early 1800s it came to mean "abstinence from alcoholic drink."
temperance tem·per·ance (těm'pər-əns, těm'prəns)
n.
Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression.
Restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors.
