33 Quotes About Drunkenness

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty; the trouble of civility; the spoil of wealth; the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent; the tavern and ale house benefactor; the beggar's companion; the constable's trouble; his wife's woe; his children's sorrow; his neighbor's scoff; his own shame. In short he is a tub of swill, a spirit of unrest, a thing below a beast, and a monster of a man.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

The alcoholic commits suicide on the installment plan.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.

I had rather be a sober heathen than a drunken Christian.

He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin; whosoever has it, has not himself.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards -- to put the business that makes drunkards out of business.

I'm tired of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee. Where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, and God an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

Drunkenness is the devil's back door to hell and everything that is hellish. For he that once gives away his brains to drink is ready to be caught by Satan for anything.

He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.