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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Caroline Amelia Nation, often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet.
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
God is a politician; so is the devil.
[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could