Nigel Farage Quotes

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

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

This day we have held a council, and it is agreed by the Shawnee in general that whatever rum is in our towns shall be broke and split and not drunk; and whosoever shall bring any rum or any sort of strong drink into our towns, Indian or white man, let it be little or much, it shall be broke or split in the presence of the whole town…

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

Mrs. Hayes has been from childhood a total abstainer. I was not a total abstainer when I became President. But the discussions which arose over the change at the President's house soon satisfied me that in this matter, if our example was to be useful, there was no half-way house for me. During the greater part of my term and at least for the last three years, I have been in practice and in theory a total-abstinence man, and I shall continue to be so. All statements inconsistent with the foregoing are without foundation.

I don't drink.

I've never been drunk. I've never even had a beer.

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

I don't drink at all.

I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude.

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.

I don't even drink.

I'm not usually a drinker.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.