Anti-Saloon League Quotes

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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…

Yes I drink, but at least I don't drink blood!

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

[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.

McKinley drinks soda water, Bryan drinks rum; McKinley is a gentleman, Bryan is a Bum.

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

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.

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.

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

I don't really party. I'll occasionally have a drink.

I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.

I've found for playing that it's generally not a good thing to be drinking.

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

I don't drink at all.

I don't like drinking, basically.

I don't even drink.

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

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.