Quotes about Alcohol-Related Crime

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Frances E. Willard

The illicit traffic of liquor among the Indians and the indiscriminate leasing of their lands have done more harm than anything that happened to them in their history, even now we hear of some desperate deed committed through their drunkenness.

Jon Taffer

Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

Lee Mack

I hate all adverts for alcohol. They're evil. All of them.

Zach Wamp

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

George Bernard Shaw

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Peter C. Mancal

When drinkers became violent, communities accepted the idea that liquor was responsible for their actions; it made no sensate punish the person who committed the crime when the true offender was the alcohol.

He was describing the way that the Colonial America, Native American communities coped with the adverse consequence of violence brought about by liquor which had been given to the Indians by white traders for the purpose of impairing the Indians’ judgment so that they would trade more easily and on better terms. Since then and into the 21st century, business people have entertained’ potential customers with alcohol for the same general purposes.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

Heygler

I desire a stop may be put to the selling of strong Liquors by the White people to my people especially near the Indian nation. If the white people make strong drink, let them sell it to one another, or drink it in their own families. This will avoid a great deal of mischief which otherwise will, happen from my people getting drunk and quarrelling with the White people. I have no strong prisons like you to confine them for it. Our only way is to put them under ground and all these (pointing proudly to his Warriors) will be ready to do that to those who shall deserve it.

Adam Smith

It is not the multitude of ale-houses ... that occasions a general disposition to drunkenness among the common people; but that disposition, arising from other causes, necessarily gives employment to a multitude of ale-houses

Ever since Smith made this statement, Western societies have argued the issue of causality. Contemporary thinking is that the availability of alcohol outlets are both a cause and an effect of heavy and dangerous drinking. Most state alcohol authorities however do regulate the number of outlets and have not accepted Smith’s point.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

C. Everett Koop

Most Americans are like me and drink relatively little, yet we all pay for alcohol-related crashes.

Alcohol-Related Crime Quotes