Age Quote by James Madison

Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful;…

— Andrew Jackson

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open…

— Abraham Lincoln

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

— Thomas Jefferson

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

— Thomas Jefferson

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want…

— Gary Johnson

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just…

— Anonymous

What America needs now is a drink,

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.…

— Henry David Thoreau

No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more…

— Alice-Leone Moats

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for…

— Bill Bruford

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their…

— Aldous Huxley

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach…

— Charles Caleb Colton