Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

Liquor traffic is un-American, pro-German, crime-procuring, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.