Some quotes on drinking
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of it. None would ever have existed but for the art of man interfering
with the operations of nature. So far is alcohol from being a
natural or legitimate product that its manufacture is A WAR AGAINST
NATURE AND AGAINST NATURE'S GOD. Having no legitimate use as a
drink or remedy, being a poison and a curse, a deadly enemy to
health, peace, and human happiness, a special weapon of warfare
against morality, virtue, and Christianity, the production, sale,
or purchase of alcohol, giving it to others, or its use as a beverage,
in the form of spirituous liquors, ale, porter, wine, bitters, or
other alcoholic intoxicant, is A BLASPHEMOUS DEFIANCE OF ALMIGHTY
GOD, A WAR WAGED FOR THE FRUSTRATION OF HIS DIVINE PURPOSES AND
DESIGNS, A VIOLATION OF EVERY ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND OF
EVERY PRECEPT OF THE GOSPEL, AND IT IS THE BLACKEST AND VILEST
TREASON AGAINST HUMANITY.
-- Captain Albert D. Wood
PRESIDENTIAL DECLARATION.
Being satisfied from observation and experience, as well as from
medical testimony, that ardent spirit, as a drink, is not only
needless but hurtful, and that the entire disuse of it would tend
to promote the health, the virtue and happiness of the community,
we hereby express our conviction that should the citizens of the
United States, and especially all young men, discountenance entirely
the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit
but the good of our country and the world. -- JAMES MADISON, JOHN
Q. ADAMS, ANDREW JACKSON, MARTIN VAN BUREN, JOHN TYLER, JAMES K.
POLK, ZACHARY TAYLOR, MILLARD FILLMORE, FRANKLIN PIERCE, JAMES
BUCHANAN, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ANDREW JOHNSON.
THE NATURAL RESULTS AND EFFECTS OF ARDENT SPIRITS.
Alcohol is classed among the poisons by medical writers on poisons.
I do not know of an exception among physicians. It is ranked among
the poisons from its effects on the body analogous to those of other
poisons. What is said of the effect of alcohol must be true of all
doses, large or small, although the effect of very minute doses may
be imperceptible. Arsenic may be administered in doses so small
as to produce no apparent ill effects; yet no one doubts that arsenic
is a poison.
If a person dies of delirium tremens, it is not the last glass that
kills him, but every does or glass he has taken in his life has
conduced to the result. -- DR. REUBEN D. MUSSEY, PROFESSOR OF
ANATOMY AND SURGERY, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
SENTNECE OF A MUDERER.
By one fatal act your wife was sent to the cold and silent mansions
of the dead; your children were deprived of all the endearments and
fostering care of their mother, and you are fated to expiate your
offense upon the gallows. Upon a review of the shocking transaction
the question naturally presents itself, What could have perverted
your nature? what could have so steeled your heart? The answer
is, Spiritous liquor. It has had the effect to estrange you from
the most endearing relation, from the ties of blood, from your
obligations to your fellow beings and your Creator. If any further
evidence were wanting to manifest the desolating effects of ardent
spirits which have moved like a destroying angel over our land, we
have it in the astounding fact that, within the last two months,
three men have been arraigned before me on charges of murdering
their wives, and each of these offenses was committed by intemperate
men. -- JUDGE EDWARDS, SENTENCE OF DEATH UPON JAMES RANSOM.
I challenge any man who understands the nature of ardent spirit,
and yet for the sake of gain continues to be engaged in the traffic,
to show that he is not involved in the guilt of muder. -- REV.
LYMAN BEECHER, D.D.
TEACHERS IN PRISON.
The records of one of England's great cities show that of 649
Protestant prisoners, 593 had been in Sabbath-schools, on an average
from six to seven years each; and out of 724 Protestant prisoners,
one in nine had been teachers, and two-thirds of them all came to
prison through strong drink. -- Miss Frances E. Willard.
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> Protestant prisoners, 593 had been in Sabbath-schools, on an average
> from six to seven years each; and out of 724 Protestant prisoners,
> one in nine had been teachers, and two-thirds of them all came to
> prison through strong drink. -- Miss Frances E. Willard.
That is b/c being a tight-arsed Protestant drove them to drink!