Richard Brookhiser Quotes
John Adams and John Quincy Adams had six sons. Two of these were great statesman and four were drunks. For the Adams family it was the White House or the Ale House …. Family pressure is part of what drives people to drink.
Richard Brookhiser, Historian, Lecture, Columbia University, April 7, 2002
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The great poet was trying to get a job with the BBC and Nicholson was to be his boss.
She was a baroness—a member of the aristocracy who was a social reformer
An Aborigine herself, she had co-authored a major study of 45 aboriginal communities of Australia’s vast Northern Territory—the alcohol abuse was so great that young pre teen girls were trading sex for alcohol, parents in large numbers were too drunk to care for children. Few children attended school. Many were physically abused. The Government responded by attempting to ban alcohol in the aboriginal communities and withholding government welfare payments from parents who would not send their children to school. At the time there were 470,000 aborigines in Australia’s 20 million population.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. The Congressmen who voted for Prohibition in the next century had not read or believed this quotation of Twain’s.
One of the commonalities between Lincoln and Washington were there experience in seeing alcohol cause the death and/or ruination of many. See {630833}.
When Washington was younger and running for the colonial Virginia assembly, he bought beer and rum for all the voters in his precinct. He did not then realize the damage that alcohol can do. One of the commonalities between Lincoln and Washington were their experience in seeing alcohol cause the death and/or ruination of many. See {630832}.
Richard Brookhiser is an American journalist, biographer and historian. He is a senior editor at National Review. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington.
