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”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The alcoholic commits suicide on the installment plan.”

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

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

“Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.”

“I had rather be a sober heathen than a drunken Christian.”

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

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

“He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever.”

“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.”

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

“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.”

“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty; the trouble of civility; the spoil of wealth; the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent; the tavern and ale house benefactor; the beggar's companion; the constable's trouble; his wife's woe; his children's sorrow; his neighbor's scoff; his own shame. In short he is a tub of swill, a spirit of unrest, a thing below a beast, and a monster of a man.”