Inspirational Quotes on Drunkenness

“ON GETTING DRUNK: "Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct themselves modestly, moderately, and soberly, so that one does not go on living the swinish life that goes on in the filthy world...." "...In my time it was considered a great shame among the nobility [drunkenness]. Now they are worse than the citizens and peasants;...We preach, but who stops it? Those who should stop it do it themselves; the princes even more. Therefore Germany is a land of hogs and a filthy people which debauches its body and its life. If you were going to paint it, you would have to paint a pig. "This gluttony is inundating us like an ocean....We are the laughingstock of all the other countries, who look upon us as filthy pigs;...It is possible to tolerate a little elevation, when a man takes a drink or two too much after working hard and when he is feeling low. This must be called a frolic. But to sit day and night, pouring it in and pouring it out again, is piggish. This is not a human way of living. not to say Christian, but rather a pig's life." - Martin Luther”

“After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.”

“At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.”

“God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.”

“I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.”

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

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

“I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.”

“I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.”

“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.”

“The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.”

“There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.”

“Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.”

“The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards -- to put the business that makes drunkards out of business.”

“Drunkenness is the devil's back door to hell and everything that is hellish. For he that once gives away his brains to drink is ready to be caught by Satan for anything.”

“Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin; whosoever has it, has not himself.”

“Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee. Where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, and God an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations.”

“He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.”

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”

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