Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

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.

[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.

I know this might be broadcast broadly. But I'm 52 years old, and I'm going to admit to you that I've never had a drop of alcohol.

I never drink... wine.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.

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

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

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 temperance movement must include all poisonous substances which create or excite unnatural appetite, and international prohibition is the goal.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

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

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

I don't drink.

Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet - completely sober.

I don't drink alcohol. I only really drink water.