
First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865).
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 21, Concerning Excise
First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865).
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“And how could he know whether it was a good omen or not without another drink?”
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VII (*p. 201)
“Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?”
VII, 18
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
1963, Civil Rights Address
“A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
The Third Policeman (1967)