How to pronounce “temperance” in English

temperance advocates and one of the things that he did and he was very outspoken he wrote about it but he also

temperance people.

the Temperance Temple; the Women's Christian Temperance Union building. And somebody said it had very little effect on City Hall, temperance.

what temperance was?

by the temperance movement.

So alcohol was a temperance topic for a long while rather than a public health topic.

targeted by the temperance movement.

Women's Christian Temperance Union -- to one where we are today where two-thirds of us

Carrie Nation was behind the women's temperance movement which eventually led to Prohibition, which led to organized crime .

You kind of think the word 'temperance' means 'to be temperate' or 'to moderate', right?

And I started doing this temperance tour, this walking tour of Prohibition-related sites in Washington, D.C. So if you guys are ever out there, it's a

Anybody hear of the Women's Christian Temperance Union -- or WCTU?

It was really naive of the temperance movement, especially in hindsight, to think that, "Wow, they actually wanted to ban alcohol?"

Interestingly, the alcohol-- the temperance movement came to America before-- came to Atlanta before the rest of America.

So initially, temperance meant to get people to moderate their drinking, but pretty quickly more radical people took over the movement and they decided that people had to refrain

money during the Gold Rush and part of the temperance movement.

So again, temperance was this faith-based initiative.

I don't want to offend any die-hard people that are temperance adherents.

The one I put up here on the screen is the Cogswell Temperance Fountain.

They are prudence-- that's to say practical wisdom-- and courage, temperance, and most important of all, and especially in politics, justice.

People weren't really sure about whether it was safe or , because the temperance movement was so big, and obviously, led to Prohibition.

He lives in Washington, D.C., where he leads temperance tours of Prohibition related sites in our nation's capital.

So, temperance therefore became synonymous with abstinence from alcohol.

And they were the ones who gave us temperance, abstinence, and therefore they had to have a theological or ideological basis really

I mean, animals have courage, of course, and they might even have temperance.

Now, if you think of it as a commentary on the four cardinal virtues, Machiavelli, he doesn't speak up for temperance, does he?

And Anheuser-Busch had a magazine ad or a newspaper ad that said something stupid like, Budweiser-- spells temperance.

Carrie Nation, of course, was the leader of the women's temperance movement, which led

One thing, just a toss off comment that he made at one point was "abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."

And in that book, he laid out where the temperance

That said, of course, the temperance

The debate over advertising has gone on since the 1930's when the WCTU and other organizations that were heavily involved in temperance wanted

manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol, but the temperance movement -- at least give them some credit -- they realized, "Okay, people still want a certain amount of freedom

And you know, where the temperance movement came from was this church-based response to the binge drinking that was going on.