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A nineteenth-century abstinence pledge card. For another card, see Touch Not, Taste Not, Handle Not.

With Malice Toward None,
With Charity for All

I, the undersigned, do pledge myself, God helping me, to abstain from all intoxicating liquors, as a beverage.

Feb. 22, 1881

Mrs. R. Best

Typefaces: Antique Extended ("With Malice Toward None"),
Bulletin Script ("With Charity for All"), Title Text No. 3 ("I, the undersigned, do pledge myself, God helping me, to abstain from all intoxicating liquors, as a beverage. 188_.") Thanks to Florian Hardwig for identifying these typefaces and providing the links to Fonts In Use.

For a National Temperance Society pledge card that urges abstinence from alcohol and profanity as well as tobacco, see Touch Not, Taste Not, Handle Not.

Anti-Cigarette Pledge

For the sake of strength and purity, I promise, with the help of God, never to use tobacco in any form, and to help others to abstain from its use.

Name: Bessie G. Gilstrap. Date: Apr. 22, 1916.

"If sinners entire thee, consent thou not." Prov. 1:10.

Missionary Volunteer Pledge Series, No. 8.

Originally posted on Ipernity: Anti-Cigarette Pledge, 1916.

Compare this abstinence pledge card with a Lincoln-Lee Legion Pledge Card, 1903 and an Anti-Cigarette Pledge, 1916.

Touch Not. Taste Not. Handle Not.

Pledge.

I hereby promise, by the help of God, to abstain from the use of all intoxicating liquors, including wine, beer, and cider, as a beverage; from the use of tobacco in any form, and from all profanity.

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National Temperance Society, 58 Reade Street, New York.

"Lincoln-Lee Legion. Love, sacrifice, service. Abstinence Department of the the Anti-Saloon League. I hereby enroll with the Lincoln-Lee Legion and promise with God's help to keep the following pledge."

"Whereas the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is productive of pauperism. degradation, and crime, and believing it is our duty to discourage that which produces more evil than good, we therefore pledge ourselves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage."

"A sober nation and a safe highway."