Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

From routine hospital visits and prescription drugs, to emergencies and hospice care, Medicare covers the full range of health services that our nation's seniors rely on every single day.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

This is not a prohibitive society. We're not going to tell people they can't smoke. We learned that we can't tell people they can't drink.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

It's not good to throw back scotch with a new fetus.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.