 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whisky. Fix but the duty at the rate of other merchandise,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. Fix but the duty at the rate of other merchandise,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the deafness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - New South Wales - 1837 - 1052 pages
...instead of a rum-drinking and most outrageously intemperate, population.* At all events, if the convict * No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. — President Jefferson, Memoirs and Correspondtnte, iv. 320. livision of the population of the colony... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating thenhouses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." We, too, have a better prospect before us. A commercial treaty is all but concluded with France, and... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - 396 pages
...as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine by our national legislature. — No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to whiskey. — Its extended use will carry health and comfort to... | |
 | Thomas McMullen - Alcoholic beverages - 1852 - 354 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of spirits, which is desolating their homes. No nation is drunken, where wine is cheap; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." DOCTOR SIGMOKD well observes: "Good wine is a cordial, a good cordial, a fine stomachic, and taken... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. Fix but the duty at the rate of other mer1... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. Fix but the duty at the rate of other merchandise,... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1856 - 470 pages
...They drink wine always, and never to excess. "No nation is drunken," says Jefferson in his Letters, " where wine is cheap ; and none sober where the dearness...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." It is the discovery of the process of distillation which (like the civil feuds of Rome) " has filled... | |
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. 
