“Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a drunkard is the worst.”— Charles Cotton
“Intemperance is the sin of our land, and, with our boundless prosperity, is coming in upon us like a flood.”— Lyman Beecher
“No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.”— John Chrysostom
“Call things by their right names... Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.”— Robert Hall
“The first and most radical evil of the saloon is the fact that it is a place of temptation.”— Josiah Strong