Benjamin Gilman Quotes

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

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 became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.

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

We, like any other state – and probably more so because of the culture here – have problems with alcohol.

[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.

Alcohol and other drug problems are community problems and must be solved by communities in partnership with government.

We fully understand that even in our own lands we’re now a minority, but that doesn’t in any way mean we should rescind our efforts to deal with the pain of alcohol abuse in those lands.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefitted by a total and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems to me not now open to question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. Ought any, then, to refuse their aid in doing what good the good of the whole wold demands.

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

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

Jake 'The Snake's' two best friends are Jim Beam & Jack Daniels.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.