“Approximately $200,000 is spent each day promoting alcohol in New Zealand”

– Dave Hookway

Northland District Health Board Health promotion advisor – alcohol and other drugs

I am reading that quote in one of our local papers. (NORTHERN NEWS, May 1, 2013)

LIQUORKING

Notes taken from “ONE HUNDRED BIBLE LESSONS,” by Alban Douglas, page 253.

WHAT GREAT MEN HAVE SAID ABOUT ALCOHOL

“Alcohol is a poison men take into the mouth to steal away the brain.” – Shakespeare

“Strong drink is more destructive than war, pestilence and famine.” – Gladstone

“The devil in solution.” – Sir Wilfred Lawson

“A cancer in human society, eating out its vitals and threatening its destruction.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Distilled damnation.” – Robert Hall

“An artist in human slaughter.” – Lord Chesterfield

“The most criminal and artistic method of assassination ever invented by bravos of any age or nation.” – Ruskin

“Drunkenness has killed more men than all of history’s wars.” – General Pershing

“My experience through life has convinced me that abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard to  morals and health.” – General Robert E. Lee

“He who drinks is deliberately disqualifying himself for administration.” – President Taft