Billy Sunday Quotes

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

They who drink beer will think beer.

Prohibition created more drunks than anything else.

This is a war between the rum shops and women…only one can win.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

The white traders keep these poor Indians continually under the force of liquor. They entirely estrange the affections of the Indians from the English.

The speech of a Creek—Indian, against the immoderate use of spirituous liquors. Delivered in a national assembly of the Creeks, upon the breaking out of the late war.

The one argument in favor of the saloon is that the taxes from the saloon are needed. You show me communities where they have none, where the taxation, my friends, is higher than in communities where they have. Everybody with a scintilla of decency and brains knows that it is the saloon that raises the rate of taxation in the country all over. Seventy-five per cent of our idiots came from intemperate parents, and there are more insane people in the United States, made insane by drink, than there are students in the universities and colleges. One out of every three hundred and eighty-three in Pennsylvania in 1911 were either in the insane asylum or the home for feeble-minded, and New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois are the worst whisky-dominated, whisky-damned and whisky-controlled states in the Union; and there is no state in the Union where the liquor interests are more strongly allied and entrenched than they are in the state of New York.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

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

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

[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.

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

We spend billions and billions to fight drugs but, comparatively, spend nothing against alcohol. And alcohol is a drug.

The benefit of drinking alcohol is very minimal and the harm of it is as bad as what a knife can do.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.