Billy Sunday Quotes

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.

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

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

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

I drink no more than a sponge.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

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

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.

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…

The Prophet hath cursed ten persons on account of wine: one, the first extractor of the juice of the grape for others; the second, for himself; the third, the drinker of it; the fourth, the bearer of it; the fifth, the person to whom it is brought; the sixth, the waiter; the seventh, the seller of it; the eighth, the eater of its price; the ninth, the buyer of it; the tenth, that person who hath purchased it for another.

Drunkenness is the Touch Stone by which they try every man; and he that cannot or will not drink, has a mark set upon Him. He is abused behind his Back. He is hurt in his Property, and he is persecuted as far as the Power of Malice and Intemperance.

[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.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

He [Peter the Great] took his bottle heartily, so must all the company; for when he was merry himself he loved to see everybody so; though at the same time he could not endure habitual drinkers, for such he thought unfit for business.