“I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people,
so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to
be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of
the rest.” —  From a speech in the House of Commons:
January 14, 1766 by William Pitt, Earl of Chatham [1708-78]

“One drink of wine, and you act like a monkey; two drinks,
and you strut like a peacock; three drinks, and you roar like
a lion; and four drinks—you behave like a pig.”
                  — In the Steps of St. Paul [1936] by Henry Morton

“Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we
have left it we can never return.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

“Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant
like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.”
—  William Lloyd Garrison [1805-1879]