I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.
Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man [for public office], to an intemperate one; still I do not make my vote depend absolutely upon the question of whether a candidate does or does not taste liquor.
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.
How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.
Considering that Americans are now moving away from whiskey, moving away from brown spirits in general, I believe that they will all join Russians who drink vodka straight. They will sip it like cognac.
Pints [of liquor] are very inconvenient in the house [the White House] as the article is not used in such small quantities.
Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.
